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This wiki provides developer information for Plasma. It is targeted towards Plasma desktop, many concepts apply to Plasma Mobile as well though. For specific information about Plasma Mobile visit the Plasma mobile documentation

Documentation

Vision Statement
Topics which come up again and again (repeated discussions)
Vocabulary (extra information in Terminology, pages should be merged in)
Tutorials and examples
Plasma Desktop Scripting
Guidelines for Plasma widgets creation
Plasma Architecture Overview
QML Style guide
Plasmoid and other Plasma plugin packaging
Defensive publication of innovations and implementations
Building and running Plasma 5
Convergence Overview

Developer Coordination

Interface Standards and Research

Plasma User Research Profile
The ways of the Plasma
Recommended Reading on interaction design
QML Coding Style Guidelines

Current

Plasma 5 Release Schedule
Classroom
Education Set Proposals
Plasma Mobile
Plasma Media Center
Multiscreen and PDV
Activities
Plotting the plans for world domination via compositing
Kiosk
Plasma in a Snap Bundle

Plasma 5

Plasma/PlasmaShellFeatures
Porting your Plasma QML code to Plasma 5
Documenting API changes in libplasma2 for porting things from libplasma1
Planning for libplasma2, documenting issues with libplasma1
Api review of libplasma2 classes, method by method
Screenlocker planning
Platform state and kded module
Package for shell definition
Package for shell look and feel
How to create Look and Feel Package
Plasma Shell Scripting
5.5 Errata
Distro Packages
Live Images
Docker Images
Wayland Showstoppers

Ongoing

Coordination for work on Plasma QtComponents
Plasmoid Javascript Roadmap and TODO
Documentation Coordination on Userbase
PlasMate
Open Tasks List
Bindings TODOs
Plasma UX improvement project (Norwegian School of Information Technology)

Past

The new system tray protocol
4.5 Polish
Plasma-Netbook
Kiosk Settings for 4.4
Plasma::Kiosk
Plasma::Service <-> Jolie Integration
Plasma (plasma-desktop) D-Bus interface planning
Development roadmap for 4.7 and 4.8
Coinstallability with Plasma 1
Plasma 5 Status & Todo

Individual Plasmoid Planning

Meetings

Summaries and logs of scheduled plasma meetings can be found on the following pages:

Affenfels Sprint
Akademy 2014
Tokamak6
Workspace Sprint 2012
Tokamak5
Nov 25, 2010, irc meeting to discuss the move to git
Sept 12, 2010, irc meeting for 4.6 coordination
July 15, 2010, irc meeting for 4.6 coordination
Akademy 2010
Tokamak4
Tokamak3
Tokamak2
Akademy 2008
Tokamak1
June 27, 2009, irc meeting for 4.4 coordination
February 9, 2008
February 21, 2007
March 6 2010, irc meeting for 4.5 coordination

Pages of Historical Interest

The ZUI. (Zooming User Interface)