On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:41 PM Christopher Patti <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am after understanding in a general sense how KDE applications can be > extended at runtime. Are there particular Qt classes that enable this? > > Let me ask a more concrete question that may be easier to answer - can you > give me an example of a KDE app that's extensilble? > > Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer these questions. > > -Chris > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, at 6:43 PM, Aleix Pol wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:57 PM Christopher Patti <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all. I hope you'll forgive a potentially ignorant question, but I'm > > > curious about something that confuses a lot of people. > > > > > > I'd love to be able to 'script' KDE applications at runtime. > > > > > > It *looks* like you can do this at least with the Plasma desktop using > > > Javascript: > > > > > > https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/PlasmaDesktopScripting > > > > > > Is it possible to do something similar with KDE apps as well? > > > > > > Thanks for tolerating a newbie question. > > > > Hi Christopher, > > Some applications can be extended using JavaScript, but not every > > application. > > > > What are you after? > > Aleix > >
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qjsengine.html There's many components that can be extended through QML (which is a superset of JS) or just JS. Examples would be Plasma, KWin, ki18n, Discover, GCompris and a big etcetera. essentially every application for Plasma Mobile or Android. Aleix
