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    Plasma Programming with C++

    Getting Started With Plasmoids
    Creating your first plasmoid in C++ with SVG background, icon and text
    Writing a DataEngine
    DataEngines provide a standardized interface to various data sources for visualizations to use. Learn what a DataEngine is and how to write one of your own.
    Video tutorial
    Video and slides from a presentation on libplasma (link to Slides below)
    Link To Slides For The Above Video
    Slides For The Presentation Creating User Interfaces With Plasma by Aaron Seigo
    How to use extenders in your Plasmoid
    A simple example that shows how to use extenders in a Plasmoid.
    Creating Runners
    Runners are plugins that provide action-based search functionality in the Plasma workspace "run command" dialog. These plugins can be used by any application that links again libplasma.
    Creating Comic Plugins
    This guide shows you how to create a comic plugin for the comic plasmoid.
    Wallpaper Tutorial 1
    This tutorial shows you how to make a simple Hello World plasma wallpaper plugin.
    Creating Plasmoids
    May 2010 article from Linux Magazine

    Plasma Programming with JavaScript

    Plasma has built-in JavaScript (also known as ECMAScript, and often referred to as QtScript in the context of Qt) scripting support without requiring any external dependencies.

    Getting Started
    Creating and running your first plasmoid in JavaScript
    Getting Data
    How to retreive data from a data engine
    Now Playing
    Slightly more advanced data engine usage: displaying what's currently playing
    System Monitor
    How to access systemmonitor data engine
    Cheat Sheet
    A cheat sheet, rather than a tutorial, of things to remember and watch out for when developing JavaScript plasmoids
    API Reference
    The Simplified JavaScript Plasmoid API. Useful for referencing what is available in the runtime and as a study aid for the tutorials above.
    plasma-desktop Scripting
    The KDE Plasma Desktop provides means to manage the desktop shell (desktop, panels, widget) via scripts written in JavaScript. This article describes how to take advantage of this feature set as well as documents the full API. This is primarily a system administration tool, but may also be of interest to power users.

    Plasma Programming with Python

    Getting Started
    Creating and running your first plasmoid in Python
    Using widgets
    Introduction to using Plasma widgets
    Using DataEngines
    How to use DataEngines from a plasmoid
    Writing DataEngines
    How to write your own Plasma DataEngine
    Writing a Plasmoid in Python
    Writing a simple battery graph in python

    Plasma Programming with Ruby

    Getting Started
    Creating and running your first plasmoid in Ruby
    Using widgets
    Introduction to using Plasma widgets
    Writing a simple paste applet
    A tutorial explaining how to set up a plasmoid, create a simple paste applet using widgets and add Plasma features seen elsewhere. Complete with tips for those who have never programmed before.
    Use SVG artwork in the simplest way possible
    Follow a fellow student as he asks around about SVG usage and explains why the code examples work. This is a wiki so feel free to add your own insights until this tutorial can be considered complete.

    Plasma Programming with Web Technologies (HTML/JS/CSS etc)

    Getting Started
    Creating and running your first plasmoid in HTML

    Theme development

    Creating a Plasma Theme
    Guide to creating your first Plasma theme

    Resources