On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:31 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
Linuxguy123 wrote:
> 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).
OK, that makes sense. I'll wait.
Most of the examples in
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/PythonPlasmoid
don't run because of this problem or similar problems. That and the
fact that nobody is mentioning KDE/Qt version numbers makes it confusing
for newbies.