Hi,

I'm *very* new to programming so please forgive me if I say anything here that doesn't make any sense or is just plain stupid. I'm trying to write a KDE application with a QML interface, and within that interface I would like to embed a KPart. I have tried a million things, and the closest I have gotten to making it work is by putting the KPart in a QDeclarativeItem, and then making it available as a QML type through qmlRegisterType. In the QDeclarativeItem, I wrap the KPart with a QGraphicsProxyWidget. With this, I do see the KPart in my QML interface, but it appears only in a small rectangle (much smaller than the rectangle within which I placed it) and it is a complete mess in terms of menus, etc.

Am I trying to do something that just cannot be done? Or is there a way to do this that I'm missing?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Best,
Oriol

I fear this will be difficult.
For the sizing issues, you need to setup layouts, to ensure the QGraphicsWidget fills the available space in the QDeclarativeItem.

Thanks for your help, Ben. Layouts improved things a little since now I can see the whole width of the KPart, but I am still only seeing its very top. I wonder if the problem is that KParts are not QWidgets, and so when I wrap the KPart with a QGrapicsProxyWidget there's bound to be problems. I don't know how else to do this though. I have been playing around with this for days and I am getting nowhere. My coding skills are obviously not good enough to solve this, so I guess I'll build the GUI with QWidgets and I'll come back to this when I understand how all this works better (and maybe QtQuick 2.x will make this easier). Thanks anyway!

Make sure to use KXMLGuiWindow if you want to allow KParts to be used, as it allows for menus and toolbars to be merged in.

I am looking for a working example in QML/QtQuick that embed a KPart

ideally, the konsolepart

thanks

answered all my questions...

example in QML embedding konsolepart

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

The QML terminal widget https://github.com/Swordfish90/qmltermwidget

And finally, (drum rolling)

a yakuake fork, that tries to be very much like Konsole, but with REAL SPLIT PANES !!!

Final name has to be decided, and a new repo on github will be created once we are settled on a good name
please try it, and names suggestions are welcome

https://bitbucket.org/somekool/kde-start/