Starting with Plasma Active development

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 13:34:14 Osmo Antero wrote:
> This PPA seems to provide these executables

there should also be a plasma-device that gives you the tablet UI

> I this the right way to start with the coding of plasma widgets?

it's one way :) many of us test our plasmoids in plasmoidviewer (ships with 
kde-workspace, which also includes KDE Plasma Desktop)
 
> >From the documentation I understand that Plasma Active Widgets are written
> 
> with Javascript and QT/QML.

that's where we put our focus these days, yes. in some cases, C++ is necessary 
to expose certain system features, often through DataEngines.
 
> Can you give me your comments and it would be nice to have some easy
> Javascript-examples with QML files.

the KDE Examples repository contains a number of examples:

	https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeexamples/repository

and there are some tutorials as well on Techbase

	http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma

and API docs for the QML extensions and components:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/QML/API
	http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/plasma-qml-apidocs/

if you have any specific questions as you go, feel free to ask them here or on 
irc.freenode.net in #plasma or #active ...

cheers :)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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