KDE4 Plasmoid/Widget overlay

[Berniyh]

There have been several questions, what the best way to install extra plasmoids for KDE 4 is on IRC and in the KDE 4 threads and therefore I decided to create an overlay that holds a collection of plasmoids to let portage install them.

Creating ebuilds for plasmoids is very easy, everybody should be able to do that.
I put two examples in the overlay already and added some comments.
If you want to create an ebuild for a plasmoid just edit one of these and then send it to me via email or publish your own git tree somewhere and tell my, where to pull from.
Normally you find extra plasmoids in places like http://www.kde-look.org
If you create an ebuild for a plasmoid from kde-look.org make sure you put the right download link in the file. You should get that by running

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wget "the_download_link_from_kde-look.org

Watch out for the line that contains "Following".

Anyway, you can clone the Overlay using git by cloning from:
git://bandi.homelinux.com/plasmoids-kde-svn.git
git://bandi.homelinux.com/plasmoids-kde-4.git

Use the first URL if you want to use them with the live ebuilds and use the second one to use them with the 4.0 ebuilds.
If you want to use layman, there is a xml file for using the overlay with layman, you can get it via gitweb.
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Because there have been some problems, here is how to add it with layman. First get the .xml file (browse with gitweb to profiles, select blob on the .xml file, then raw and right click -> save) and put it in your layman directory (normally this should be /usr/portage/local/layman).
Then open /etc/layman/layman.cfg and search for this line:
overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/ ... global.txt
Below this line add file:///usr/portage/local/layman/plasmoids-svn.xml till it looks like this:
overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/ ... global.txt
file:///usr/portage/local/layman/plasmoids-svn.xml

(Don't forget to insert "TAB"s, it won't work if you don't do that.)
Now add the overlay by running
layman -a plasmoids-kde-svn
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You can watch the overlays at
http://bandi.homelinux.com/gitweb/?p=pl ... ;a=summary
http://bandi.homelinux.com/gitweb/?p=pl ... ;a=summary

Note, that bball (one of the plasmoids) seems to be broken when one uses the svn version. I didn't test the plasmoids with KDE 4.0.x.
Questions? Suggestions?

[step]

plasmoid = applet for kde 4 that is a smoothly animated blob of horror and does nothing but use up cpu cycles.

copy cut paste edit from http://www.kde-look.org/content/search.php

[Berniyh]

Ok, first: currently because of the big plasma merges, a lot of plasmoids are broken.

Second: I won't continue the kde-4 part of the overlay, because I just don't have time to test them on that one.
If someone wants to continue that one, feel free to do take it.

[fldc2]

Note, that bball (one of the plasmoids) seems to be broken when one uses the svn version. I didn't test the plasmoids with KDE 4.0.x.
Questions? Suggestions?

bball is maintained in kde playground already.

[Berniyh]

Note, that bball (one of the plasmoids) seems to be broken when one uses the svn version. I didn't test the plasmoids with KDE 4.0.x.
Questions? Suggestions?

bball is maintained in kde playground already.

I know that. Actually quite a few are.

[Boblenain]

plasmoid works on 4.0 on only with trunk?

(i'm on trunk)

[Berniyh]

plasmoid works on 4.0 on only with trunk?

Es I said, since I can't test it on :kde-4, I dropped the :kde-4 overlay.
If you want it, fetch it like described above and revert the last commit.
(git revert commit_hash)

Unfortunately I have problems with the server atm, so you will have to wait a little bit for fetching.

Some of the other plasmoids don't work atm on trunk, because of the API changes upstream. You will have to wait until that settled a little bit and there are new releases for the plasmoids.