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.
