Development/Tutorials/Plasma4

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

Creating a Plasma Theme

Guide to creating your first Plasma theme

How to use extenders in your Plasmoid

A simple example that shows how to use extenders in a Plasmoid.

Resources:

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

TODO:

• tutorials for other languages (JavaScript, Python, etc...)