getting involved with plasma

[Chani]

On October 20, 2010 11:06:05 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> which is the best supported language for making a "beautiful" plasmoid?
> i know that i have to learn qt programming,but what exacly??

javascript.
if you want to make a complicated plasmoid then c++ may be better (but, don't 
do that yet. start simple.)
there are qt tutorials and plasma tutorials online. :)
and you should read the source of good plasmoids.

http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/tutorials.html
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeexamples/plasma

you should also learn svn if you don't know it... here, this will be useful:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started

> 
> someone who wants to contribute to plasma what exactly has to do?
> create plasmoids or fixing plasma bugs or both?

it's not what you *have* to do, it's what you *want* to do. :)
writing plasmoids can be fun. Fixing bugs will make users happy. Helping write 
documentation will make other developers love you. ;) There's lots of ways to 
contribute.

> 
> i am a newbie as it concerns the whole contributing issue,do i need a
> mentor??

nah, you don't *need* a mentor. But if you want one, we can help. Come to 
#plasma on irc.freenode.net (you know IRC right?), ask questions there or 
here, someone will answer. :)

-- 
Chani
http://chani.ca
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