[Kde-bindings] Ruby Plasmoid article

[Sebastian Sauer]

forwarded to kde-bindings at kde.org since probably someone there knows why Ruby 
Plasma Applets don't work any longer?! Looks as something essential was 
changed right after our bindings-sprint and before the 4.1.0 release (yay, I 
love feature-freezes).

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On Saturday 02 August 2008, Declan McGrath wrote:
> > Hi Sebastian,
>
> and hi Declan,
>
> first sorry for the long time till I replied. I am atm quit busy with so
> much things that it's hard to react on more complex things in realtime ;)
>
> > Loved your article on the Ruby Plasmoids at
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/RubyApplet. Thanks!
>
> Thank you too! Feedback is a rather useful thing since it shows that it's
> really worth and needed(!!!) to write such tutorials.
>
> > I had a couple of difficulties whilst trying to get the tutorial to work
> > though. I've put up a blog post on my site at
> > http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2008/08/02/getting-ruby-plasmoids-up-and-r
> >un ning-in-kde-41-on-kubuntu
>
> wow.
>
> > The main issue I had was around the CMakeLists.txt file initially. But
> > now I'm stuck getting a 'findServiceByDesktopPath:  not found' error when
> > trying to run the plasmoid? Everything seems to have installed correctly.
> >
> > Once I get it working I can tidy up my blog post or perhaps better still
> > migrate some of the content into your Techbase wiki article to add a
> > little more explananation to things like cmake and how to install the
> > plasmoid.
>
> uhm, seems I get something similar now;
>
> plasmoidviewer(20804)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: plugin
> is compiled against incompatible Plasma version   4294967295
> plasmoidviewer(20804)/libplasma Plasma::ContainmentPrivate::addApplet:
> Applet "plasma-ruby-web-applet" could not be loaded.
> findServiceByDesktopPath:  not found
>
> The interesting part here is the "incompatible Plasma version" which was
> not the case ~2 weeks ago :-/
> hmmm... since I use trunk I try to recompile bindings right now what may
> take a while. Else I would suggest to ask at the kde-bindings mailinglist
> (http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/) where more developers hang around ;)

I keep to get that error in trunk too :-/