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). -- Rex
