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 $ yum list pykde4* Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, priorities, refresh-packagekit 2 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Installed Packages PyKDE4.i386 4.1.4-1.fc10 installed PyKDE4-devel.i386 4.1.4-1.fc10 installed Thanks
