plasma

Please point me to (good) documentation about QT layouts for plasma development

I am trying to develop a plasmoid in python. I got some good tutorials here (techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma) and they are really helpful, but they don't have documentation or examples about QT layouts and their usage. I haven't programmed with QT, but I know C++ well. So, the resources shouldn't be necessarily python api...

KDE4.2 change wallpaper

How using qdbus or any other tool I can change KDE4.2 Plasma wallpaper? I tried feh and wmsetbg but they don't change my background. The only thing that works so far is kwriteconfig, but I have to restart x server after that. ...

Plasmoids development in Javascript

Does anyone know about good tutorials for developing KDE plasmoids in Javascript? I have been going over the KDEBase Tutorials, but they have just few examples and not going into advanced techniques. PS: Does nayone know, why "executable" dataengine is not working - e.g. I am not able to fetch any commands output? ...

Is there a common format for desktop widgets?

I'd like to develop a gadget (a.k.a. widget) that would be multi-platform. Namely, I'm interested in OS X and KDE4 (Plasma). Is there any way that I do it without writing the code twice? Language is not the problem here, although Python is preferred. ...

How to do visual effects for iPhone? (Plasma / Lava like)

Hi, I need to create an animated Plasma/Lava like effect, that resembles this image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1977230/example.png but slightly animated. I have absolutely no idea how to actually do those kind of effects on the iPhone. This would have to run as an UIView background, with some elements on top. Would that be feasible? A...

SFML Plasma Sprite Effect?

Is there a way to create a plasma effect in SFML that doesn't slow my framerate to a crawl? ...