Creating User Interfaces With Plasma
Want to hack up a Plasmoid in your spare time? If so, this tutorial is for you! It walks through the relevant bits of libplasma, which is used to render components in the KDE4 desktop workspace as well as applications such as Amarok 2, covering DataEngines, Applets and Plasmoid packages.
Using either C++ or JavaScript, attendees will walk out having made their first gorgeous Plasma add-on with a fully scalable interface using SVG graphics and data provisioned from the network. The end result will work seamlessly on the desktop, in panels and even in a media center presentation.
Suitable for either the hard-core C/C++ developer or the casual web developer who'd like to take their skills to the desktop, this tutorial exposes you to one of the more interesting new technologies in the free software desktop arena.
Project: Plasma
Aaron Seigo
Aaron Seigo is a 15 year veteran of the software industry who works full time on Free software. Primarily involved with the KDE project, he is also active at freedesktop.org, projects with the Linux Foundation among others. Aaron has been with the KDE project for 6 years and is a core developer working on the workspace and library issues. He is also the President of KDE e.V., the project's global foundation and non-profit organization, and a frequent public representative for the project at conferences, in magazines and on the air around the world.
Aaron Seigo
Aaron Seigo is a 15 year veteran of the software industry who works full time on Free software. Primarily involved with the KDE project, he is also active at freedesktop.org, projects with the Linux Foundation among others. Aaron has been with the KDE project for 6 years and is a core developer working on the workspace and library issues. He is also the President of KDE e.V., the project's global foundation and non-profit organization, and a frequent public representative for the project at conferences, in magazines and on the air around the world.
