Plasma 6 plasmoid tutorial? (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by Taffer@programming.dev to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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I’m looking for an up-to-date Plasma 6 tutorial for making plasmoids. Just a simple “Hello world” done correctly for Plasma 6.

The tutorial is for Plasma 5 and doesn’t work for 6 as I have no idea what I’m doing, and I haven’t found a decent way to debug these. plasmoidviewer doesn’t provide great error messages.

I found a tutorial on Medium for Plasma 6; following it I get the not-useful-at-all message on screen ("Sorry, there was an error loading Hello World."), and this in my terminal:

kf.plasma.quick: error when loading applet "ca.taffer.hello" QList()

I even installed KDevelop hoping it might have a project template, but no luck. And the “Get more templates” button in KDevelop does nothing. 🤷

I realize Plasma 6 is very recent, but my first forays into hacking for it have been insanely frustrating, which isn’t the new dev experience I want.

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[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

I also don't know any resources of the top of my head, but you can get some support on kde's matrix instance. They have rooms for development/hacking stuff

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

This one is what I'm following to learn. He even has stuff on GitHub about it.

[-] Taffer@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

That’s the last one I tried before giving up, d’oh! 🤦‍♂️

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's not that simple. You'd have to keep learning until you get it.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 7 months ago

I’m looking for an up-to-date Plasma 6 tutorial for making plasmoids. Just a simple “Hello world” done correctly for Plasma 6.

Good point. Let's see if we can find someone to update that.

In the meantime, you may want to visit this page , as it contains dozens of link to resources, chatrooms, and mailing list that will put you in touch with the people that can help with your effort.

[-] Taffer@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

If I can get something working, I’d be happy to write up something. Hopefully I’ll have some time this week to poke at it some more!

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