Thursday, March 11, 2010

Plasmate 0.1-alpha2

I just tagged and uploaded a tarball for Plasmate 0.1-alpha2. Plasmate is our Plasma add-on creation tool and we're aiming for a summer release. Improvements since the alpha 1 release last month include not only a large number of bug fixes (thanks to everyone who tried it out and reported issues they came across!) but also some great new features, of which probably the most cool one is the online integration which allows you to grab a Plasmoid via GetHotNewStuff and instantly start working on it as well as upload your own creations using your opendestop.org account.

Download it and give it a whirl!

7 comments:

Zidagar said...

Oh, yeah!
Downloaded!

I will try it today night ;)

Stephan said...

OT: I was wondering about I can't read any info about google summer of code on KDE websites?

PatraƱas said...

Sorry, but want to know how to installed and execute.

Loren said...

Wow!!! I cant wait for the Plasmate Online Integration - I'm stoked to have addons like Smooth Tasks and I'm totally pumped to not have to make install it when I install Kubuntu on my Laptop & Moms PC.

wazyk said...

I've been playing a little with alpha1 and have problem with VideoWidget. Same with this aplha2. Maybe not related to plamate itself but to js bindings capabilities.

- I can play mp3 in that widget but movies don't work.
- there are some properties to display commands (like play, pause, etc.) but I can't manage to have them visible in my plasmoid.

Any idea ?

Aaron J. Seigo said...

@Stephan: i don't think GSoC has opened up yet for student submissions? we do have an ideas page (linked to in the blog entry)

@PatraƱas: extract to disk, run cmake, then make, then make install

@Loren: smooth tasks is written in c++ (please correct me if i'm wrong :). we only support scripted plasmoids for these fancy transparent distribution mechanisms

@wazyk: yes, that would be an issue with JS bindings and/or libplasma. video does not work with all Phonon backends, but the buttons should be showing. if you can send a sample plasmoid showing the problem to plasma-devel@kde.org or file a report with the same on bugs.kde.org we will look into it and get it fixed.

wazyk said...

I've been posting bug 230541.
Hope it is clear enough.