I'm trying to write my first plasmoid and am having varying levels of success. It's a popupapplet to display my internet usage using data from my ISP. At the moment I've cut the code right down so all I'm doing is setPopupIcon("krdc") in the constructor and I have an empty init method.

The problem is is that previous times I've been playing around with returning a QPushButton from the widget() method (which successfully displayed a button when I added to the panel) but now that I've changed it to just display an icon, it still displays the button when I add it to the panel (yes I've deleted the .so file manually, cleaned, recompiled and reinstalled many times just to make sure I was doing it right). I managed to get it to display the icon using some combination of rebooting, deleting and re-installing the plasmoid, killing plasma and running plasma-desktop and running kbuildsycoca4. Now if I change the icon to kmix, when I add the plasmoid to the panel it still displays the krdc icon.

Is there some kind of caching going on and if so how do I clear it?

Running Kubuntu 10.04 and KDE 4.4.2

TIA

You need to restart Plasma each time you compile and install your plasmoid due to the way files are loaded.

Do you mean something like kquitapp plasma-desktop && plasma-desktop?

mostuff wrote:Do you mean something like kquitapp plasma-desktop && plasma-desktop?

that would do it