![Create Your First Applet
Use Desktop file metadata.desktop to describe metadata of
widget.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=ClockWidget
Type=Service
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=saber
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=saber@none.org
X-KDE-PluginInfo-License=GPL
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=clockwidget
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=1
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet
X-Plasma-API=declarativeappletscript
X-Plasma-DefaultSize=200,100
X-Plasma-MainScript=code/clockwidget.qml
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KDE Plasma Develop Intro
- 1. KDE Plasma Desktop Develop Intro CS Slayer FAD 2011 1 of 18
- 2. About Me ■ Fcitx Developer ■ KDE Fans: http://www.ikde.org 2 of 18
- 3. KDE 15 years 3 of 18
- 4. Plasma Plasma Dev Intro Language Support Vocabulary Easy Start Tools Test tool KDE Examples Q & A and Showtime 4 of 18
- 5. Plasma Desktop Desktop Shell for PC 5 of 18
- 6. Plasma Netbook Desktop Shell Designed for Netbook 6 of 18
- 7. Plasma Active New Tablet Interface 7 of 18
- 8. Language Support ■ QML ■ Javascript ■ C++ ■ Python ■ Ruby 8 of 18
- 9. Language Support Current Percentage of Language Usage: ■ Python 46% ■ C++ 44% ■ QML 6% ■ Javascript 4% Ref: http://blogs.kde.org/node/4469 9 of 18
- 10. Vocabulary ■ Widget ■ Containment ■ Date Engine ■ Runner ■ Wallpaper 10 of 18
- 11. Create Your First Applet Use Desktop file metadata.desktop to describe metadata of widget. [Desktop Entry] Name=ClockWidget Type=Service X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=saber [email protected] X-KDE-PluginInfo-License=GPL X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=clockwidget X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=1 X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet X-Plasma-API=declarativeappletscript X-Plasma-DefaultSize=200,100 X-Plasma-MainScript=code/clockwidget.qml 11 of 18
- 12. Use Data Engine for data visualization What's Data Engine? ■ Provide Data for Plasma Widget Data can be obtained from hardware, network, filesystem, DBus, or whatever you want. 12 of 18
- 13. Data Engine Why DataEngine? ■ Share data and code ■ Make data obtain process trivial ■ Communicate with data source 13 of 18
- 14. Plasmate ■ Git Integration ■ Live Preview ■ Online Upload ■ Online Import 14 of 18
- 15. Test tool ■ plasmoidviewer ■ plasmaengineexplorer 15 of 18
- 16. KDE Examples https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeexamples/ 16 of 18
- 17. Q & A and Showtime Any questions? 17 of 18
- 18. Thank you! 18 of 18