Plasma Applet Template ---------------------- You need KDE 4.2 or higger -- Build instructions -- cd /where/your/applet/is/installed mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../ make make install (your $KDEDIRS is where you install your KDE 4) Restart plasma to load the applet kquitapp plasma-desktop plasma-desktop or view it with plasmoidviewer xalertu You might need to run kbuildsycoca4 in order to get the .desktop file recognized. -- Tutorials and resources -- The explanation of the template http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/Plasma/GettingStarted Plasma techbase pages http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma == NOTIFICATIONS == The FILE xalertu-plasmoid.notifyrc MUST BE PLACED IN ~/.kde/share/apps/xalertu-plasmoid/xalertu-plasmoid.notifyrc