Introducing KDE4 and Plasma Setting Up a Build Environment Building a Simple Plasmoid

How To Create a Plasmoid

Gopala And Tejas

May 2nd 2009

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Outline

1 Introducing KDE4 and Plasma 2 Setting Up a Build Environment 3 Building a Simple Plasmoid

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Outline

1 Introducing KDE4 and Plasma

The Pillars of KDE4 What is Plasma? Some Important Plasma Concepts Plasma Bindings, not just C++
2 Setting Up a Build Environment 3 Building a Simple Plasmoid

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The Pillars of KDE4

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What is Plasma?

Plasma Features Replace Kicker, KDesktop shell, and SuperKaramba Resolution Independant interface for KDE Desktop Supports Native, Google Gadgets, SuperKaramba, QEdje, Mac OS X Dashboard and Web Widgets Hundreds of plasmoids for every imaginable need Lots of Eyecandy as well The Golden Cashew :P

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Some Important Plasma Concepts

Plasma Principles Separate Data Engines and Visualizations Extensive use of SVG Plasmoids are plasma applets Containments are applets containing other applets Plasmoids are aware of their size

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Plasma Bindings, not just C++

Plasma, Also Available in: C++ (the one and only) Javascript (ECMAScript) Ruby (via QtRuby) Python (via PyQt) C# (via Qyoto) Java (in progress, via QtJambi)

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Outline

1 Introducing KDE4 and Plasma 2 Setting Up a Build Environment

Via Distro Packages Building From Source

3 Building a Simple Plasmoid

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Via Distro Packages

Most Distros Provide Development Packages Fedora - Install kdelibs-devel via yum OpenSuSE - Install kdebase4-workspace-devel via YaST *buntu - Install kdelibs5-dev and libplasma-dev via apt Debian - Install kdelibs5-dev via apt Gentoo - Just install KDE via emerge LFS - You are on your own

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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command mkdir $HOME/kde
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command vi .my-setup; cp .my-setup $HOME/kde
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command mkdir $HOME/bin; cp ndup $HOME/bin
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command vi .bashrc
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command mkdir $HOME/kde/src
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/module
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command git svn clone svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/module -r number
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Building From Source

Steps to a Productive Build Create a folder for KDE Development Edit and Copy the .my-setup le into your new folder Copy the ndup program into your $PATH Modify Your cd function Create a Source Folder Checkout kde modules Build Them The Command cs module && cmakekde
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Outline

1 Introducing KDE4 and Plasma 2 Setting Up a Build Environment 3 Building a Simple Plasmoid

The .desktop le The Header File The C++ Work File The CMakeLists.txt Building and Running

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The .desktop le

Every Plasmoid needs a .desktop le to tell plasma how it should be started and what name it carries. KBuildSycoca is used to read all the desktop les

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The Header File

The Header le describes the plasmoids interfaces. Notice we inherit from Plasma::Applet

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The C++ Work File

Here we implement the functions we declared in the header le

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The CMakeLists.txt

CMake is a framework for building projects.

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Building and Running

Steps to a working plasmoid Create a build folder Run CMake Build The Plasmoid Install The Plasmoid Test Using plasmoidviewer Test Using plasma The Command mkdir build && cd build

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Building and Running

Steps to a working plasmoid Create a build folder Run CMake Build The Plasmoid Install The Plasmoid Test Using plasmoidviewer Test Using plasma The Command cmake -DCMAKE INSTALL PATH=INSTALL PATH /path/to/src

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Building and Running

Steps to a working plasmoid Create a build folder Run CMake Build The Plasmoid Install The Plasmoid Test Using plasmoidviewer Test Using plasma The Command make

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Building and Running

Steps to a working plasmoid Create a build folder Run CMake Build The Plasmoid Install The Plasmoid Test Using plasmoidviewer Test Using plasma The Command make install

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Building and Running

Steps to a working plasmoid Create a build folder Run CMake Build The Plasmoid Install The Plasmoid Test Using plasmoidviewer Test Using plasma The Command plasmoidviewer plasma applet tutorial1

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Building and Running

Steps to a working plasmoid Create a build folder Run CMake Build The Plasmoid Install The Plasmoid Test Using plasmoidviewer Test Using plasma The Command killall plasma && plasma

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Resources
Online Links

Slides for this Talk http://gja.in/pub/mukti-9.05-plasmoid.pdf KDE Techbase http://techbase.kde.org Increased Productivity in KDE4 with Scripts http://tinyurl.com/kde-build-scripts The Plasma Home Page http://plasma.kde.org Plasmoid Tutorials http://tinyurl.com/kde-plasmoid-cpp http://tinyurl.com/kde-plasmoid-python http://tinyurl.com/plasma-all
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Questions ?

Gopala Krishna
krishna.ggk@gmail.com

Tejas Dinkar
tejas@gja.in
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