The KDE Examples module is coming along nicely. I spent some time today moving examples from kdelibs and kdebase into it and `tree` now report 71 directories and 130 files. We have examples for KConfigXT, KAuth (new in KDE 4.4), KIdleTime, Phonon (a bunch), Solid (another bunch), Plasma's new QtKinetic based animations (new in KDE 4.4), JavaScript Plasmoids, Ruby Plasmoids and DataEngines, Python Plasmoids and DataEngines and plasma-desktop interactive scripting console.
I'm sure there are many more examples out there to be found and added. If you know of any, either let me know or add it to kdeexamples yourself. If you'd like to write some little examples, that'd be great, too. There are some gems hidden away on pages in Techbase, as well, that need to be reaped.
There is one other thing that I could really use someone's help with: documentation. As usual, I'm stretching the limits of my available time already and it would be great to have mention of kdeexamples somewhere on Techbase as well as some documentation inside of kdeexamples itself describing how to get started with it and what is available. A simple text file could do the trick, old school README style, or if someone is feeling a bit more motivated a nice looking set of HTML files could be pretty awesome.
If you'd like to help add a bit of "welcome to the KDE Examples module, here's how to get rolling" documentation to it, please get a hold of me (aseigo at kde dot org) or find me on IRC and let's get this rolling!
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5 comments:
In your previous blog abut the subject, you had some worries about distributions and how they would distribute them.
Would it be possible to wrap them all up in a demo launcher like the one used on the Qt examples? It has the ability to run the example and show the source.
This is great, but I think we need some automatic way to fetch the code from the svn to techbase if we don't want them to quickly get out of sync. Any idea on how to achieve this?
This is really great. I've done some very amateur hacking with Ruby in the past, but for the most part, writing code is not something that comes easy to me. I've always wanted to write something for KDE, but the "Getting Started..." write-ups that were Ruby-oriented were always rather basic and not easy to extrapolate to more complicated purposes. Hopefully, I'll be able to find something in kdeexamples that I can actually use in some way.
Especially looking forward to checking out that Ruby Plasmoids example.
Mr. Seigo. Not really on the topic of KDE examples (but kind of if you think about it) we need a good example of KDE over all.
What I mean is that I have used Kubuntu for years but the last couple of releases have been terrible. Not because of anything that KDE has done wrong, more what Kubuntu has done wrong.
In the spirit of showing people what can be done with KDE can you either create a blog post, or point me to some other site that I can promote when telling people to look for distributions that use KDE effectively?
Thanks.
@slloyd: Check out openSUSE - I grew very frustrated with Kubuntu recently and openSUSE just seems a lot more polished.
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