Hi all. I want to start programming something for KDE and I don't know where to start. My first goal is to extend an existing python software with a gtk interface adding a kde interface.
I thought to write this interface in pykde but I haven't found any useful documentation for pykde. So I'm wondering...can I write a pure KDE (C++) interface reusing the python core of the other app or I can just use pykde for writing it? Or it's better to rewrite even the core of the app in KDE (C++)? (I see that "pure" KDE is better documented)
Thanks!

Here is the API reference: http://api.kde.org/pykde-4.5-api/modules.html

And since KDE is Qt-based the PyQt docs should tell you a lot:
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/stati ... t4ref.html
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sta ... asses.html

The rest should be the same as either python or KDE/Qt. Is there anything else you need?

Thanks for the info. Another thing...I used Qt Creator for designing the inteface, I compiled it with pykdeuic4 and then I added the code by hand. But if I need to add something on the interface and I recompile it, it will destroy all my code right? So I can use Qt Creator just for designing the inteface the first time right?

You should import the class from the file generated by pykdeuic4 and then make a subclass from it. Du the coding in the subclass, then you can run pykdeuic4 again without ruining your code.
As it says in the files generated by pykdeuic4:
# WARNING! All changes to this file will be lost.

Forgot to mention that the subclass must also be derived from QWidget (or a QWidget derived class).

For example:

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from generated_ui import *

class MyClass(QWidget,Ui_GeneratedClass):
    def __init__(self,parent):
        QWidget.__init__(self,parent)
        self.setupUi(self)


Or whatever the file/class are called.

Well this is one way to do it

Thanks a lot!