On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:45 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I'd like to make a simple scrolling "banner" widget for my KDE4
> desktop.
>
> I've read little blurbs about how KDE4 is now supposed to allow users to
> write their own widgets easily using Python. So how do I do it ? Where
> do I start ?
>
> I know about python and pyQt. But how does one make it a widget ? Is
> there a tutorial somewhere ?
>
> A few more questions...
>
> I'd like my banner to be frameless. Just scrolling text on my desktop.
> It shouldn't doc in the taskbar. And I'd like it to handle right click
> events.
>
> Is this possible ?
I found this example.
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/PythonPlasmoid
But when I run the code, I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/xxx/workspace/Py Banner/src/default/test.py", line 4, in
<module>
from PyKDE4.plasma import Plasma
ImportError: No module named plasma
You may need PyKDE4-4.2.0+ for that (when plasma was moved to kdelibs,
as part of the devplatform).
-- Rex