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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Questions on creating Plasma applets via scripting
From:       Luca Beltrame <einar () heavensinferno ! net>
Date:       2008-05-30 8:38:30
Message-ID: 200805301038.34394.einar () heavensinferno ! net
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Hello again, Plasma developers,

this time I'm not asking documentation-related questions, but a few 
programming related ones. 

Being a biologist who works with computers, I have always needed to do quick 
searches on some databases. My idea was to make a small applet who would 
query one of these databases through its API and I could access just by 
putting it on the desktop and using the dashboard to access it.

I'm completely alien to C++, but I have been using Python for the past two 
years, and recently I picked up PyQt. Since there are already third-party 
packages to query the API, the backend stuff would be mostly done already. 

So what it would be needed in such an applet was:

- a line-edit widget 
- the ability to display HTML after the backend does its job (data fetching, 
parsing, etc).

The big question is: is this doable with Plasma script intrerface? If so, are 
there any examples with Python? (I'll also take a look at what SuperKaramba 
does)

Thanks a lot!

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