Now Dock - create a single widget panel?

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 13 August 2016, Michail Vourlakos wrote:
> Hello everyone...
> 
> 
> Having published the Now Dock plasmoid in kdelook, I would like in
> parallel to start the effort to implement it as a panel... But I dont
> know from where to start... I found in the plasmoids folder the
> org.kde.panel which I think is used for the current panel but I couldnt
> create a simple panel that I can add through the "Add Panels" menu in
> the Desktop.
> 
> Just an empty panel with a red rectangle in it would be sufficient for
> me for now... :-)
> 
> I would love to have your direction for these...

a panel is a plasmoid, just change the metadata.desktop accordingly and it 
should popup in add panels.

after that works, then you should make it correctly manage adding, and 
layouting plasmoids in it, but that's another story

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Marco Martin