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Plasmoids
Plasmoids that use the QML 2.0 declarative language to describe their user interface while having the logic of the applet, in JavaScript.
It allows easily the declaring of an interface and to easily create things like ListViews with native Plasma theming. It is what Plasma is leaning the most towards, especially in the Mobile, MediaCenter shells.
These tutorials were moved to Plasma Widget Tutorial. Not yet moved pages:
- Requirements
- What you'll need to get started with Plasmoid development
- API Reference
- The QML 2.0 Plasmoid API. Useful for referencing what is available in the runtime, and in the provided Plasma imports.
Applet provides
Applets can say in their metadata desktop file what features they provide: this is use to build an UI to switch an applet at runtime with other applet that provide the same feature. see List of known Provides
Themes
- Creating a Plasma Theme Quickstart
- A quick guide to creating your first Plasma theme
- The Plasma Theme Structure In Detail
- A comprehensive guide to the contents of a Plasma SVG theme, including configuration options, on-disk layout, names of all standard SVG files and every element in them.
- Porting an old Plasma Theme to Plasma 5
- A overview of all the changes needed for old themes to properly work on latest Plasma 5."