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Development/Tutorials/Plasma

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.

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 write a simple paste applet using widgets

Plasma Programming with QtScript

QtScript is Qt's ECMAScript scripting engine (ECMAScript is the language JavaScript and JScript are based on). You get it for free in Plasma without any external dependencies (unlike Python or Ruby).

Getting Started: Creating and running your first plasmoid in QtScript

Getting data: How to retreive data from a data engine

Theme development

Creating a Plasma Theme: Guide to creating your first Plasma theme

Resources:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma
Plasma api documentation
The plasma-devel mailing list and #plasma on IRC (irc.freenode.org).

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tutorials for other languages (JavaScript, Ruby, etc...)

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+== Plasma Programming with QtScript ==
+QtScript is Qt's ECMAScript scripting engine (ECMAScript is the language JavaScript and JScript are based on).  You get it for free in Plasma without any external dependencies (unlike Python or Ruby).
+;[[Development/Tutorials/Plasma/QtScript/GettingStarted|Getting Started]]
+:''Creating and running your first plasmoid in QtScript''
+;[[Development/Tutorials/Plasma/QtScript/DataEngine|Getting data]]
+:''How to retreive data from a data engine''
 == Theme development ==

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