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Guidelines

The Plasma widgets should follow some simple guidelines in both style and code to be included in the official widget set for the KDE Plasma workspaces.

Graphics style

  • Applets should use the Plasma::Applet default background
  • Only widgets of the libplasma widget set should be used
  • If custom widgets are created, they should be styled with svgs from the Plasma theme, using Plasma::Svg and Plasma::FrameSvg
  • All text should always be painted using the colors from Plasma::Theme

Behavioural conventions

  • Applets should always work in any form factor, Planar, Horizontal and Vertical
  • Applets should be tested on all Containments provided in the standard distribution: Desktop, Panel, Newspaper, Search and launch, and Grouping Desktop
  • If an applet should look like an icon when it is in a panel (or if it should have a popup anyways) it should inherit Plasma::PopupApplet

Coding conventions

Kdelibs coding conventions should e used