Development/Tutorials

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Tutorials are the fastest way of finding out what KDE will do for you, and how to do it. Here is a list of currently available tutorials.

Getting started

Using Subversion with KDE: A quick KDE-specific introduction how to work with KDE's version control system

KDE 4 Programming Tutorial: You are interested in writing applications with KDE 4? Here you get at tutorial which leads you from the beginners stuff to the advanced techniques.

Debugging your application: Tips, tools and techniques to apply when debugging your KDE application

Components and Plugins

Embedded Components Tutorial: Tutorial by KDE developer Kurt Granroth showing how to convert an existing KDE application into a component suitable for embedding in Konqueror.

Application Automation and Scripting

Scripting and Languages

Python =

KDE-Python tutorial: A python version of Daniel's KDE tutorial by Boudewijn Rempt.

Ruby =

KDE Ruby Korundum tutorial: A ruby version of Antonio Larrosa Jiménez's KDE tutorial by Richard Dale. See the Ruby Developers Corner for Qt tutorials and other info.

Shell

Shell Scripting with KDE dialogs (German Version): Tutorial by Brad Hards that describes how to use KDE dialogs in shell scripts with kdialog. It is presented as an example based tutorial.

Other tutorials

KIO Tutorial (German version): Tutorial by KDE developers Carsten Pfeiffer and Stephan Kulow for the c't Magazine, giving an introduction into the KDE IO Architecture and an example KIO Slave.

Using IOSlaves: IOSlaves are the subprocesses KDE uses to fetch remote files without blocking the user interface. This document discusses how they work and how to use them.; (Somewhat dated, but might still be useful).

Using and extending the KDE EDU Plot widget (docbook archive): This tutorial introduces Jason Harris' KPlotWidget that is part of the KDE EDU package. Contains information about defining your own widget in QT / KDevelop designer and about subclassing widgets and overriding member functions to extend functionality.

Extending the KDE Panel: This tutorial teaches you how to implement a simple panel applet using the panel applet API. It is a suitable task for an introduction to KDE programming.

Creating Konqueror Service Menus: This tutorial shows you how to create mimetype-specific actions in Konqueror's context menu (aka "servicemenus")

Using KConfig XT: Tutorial on how to efficiently use the KConfig XT framework (available in KDE 3.2).

Understanding KDE Kiosk mode: Tutorial on how KDE's kiosk mode is implemented and how you can get started working with it.

KWin decoration styles: Tutorial on creating decoration plugins for the KWin window manager (KDE 3.2 and later).

KNewStuffSecure: a secure way to share resources: Tutorial showing how to share resources in a secured way (KDE 3.4 and later).

Writing Unittests for Qt4 and KDE4 with QTestLib (Original link): Tutorial by Brad Hards that describes how to write unit tests using the QTestLib framework. It is presented as an example based tutorial, and is still under development.

KDE2 and KDE3 Materials

KDE3 Tutorials: These tutorials cover topics related to KDE3.

KDE2 Tutorials: These tutorials cover topics related to KDE2..