Developer Documentation
This tier is for people building Sonic-DE from source or contributing to it.
- Building Sonic-DE explains how to fetch and build the whole desktop from source with sonicde-builder.
- Dependencies lists what a build host needs.
- Troubleshooting collects known build problems.
- Kirigami tutorial: build convergent applications with QML and Kirigami, from a first window to C++ models and Kirigami Addons.
- Python with Kirigami: write and package a Kirigami application with PySide, and use the frameworks' Python bindings.
- Getting started with KXmlGui: a tutorial that builds a small text editor with SonicDE's libraries.
- Common programming mistakes in C++ and Qt code.
- SSH password prompt: ask for SSH passphrases in a window
with
ksshaskpass, and save them in KDE Wallet. - Configuration: storing settings with KConfig and KConfig XT, settings modules (KCMs) and configuration updates.
- Libraries: archives, idle time, notifications, hardware (Solid) and spell checking (Sonnet).
- KAuth: running privileged parts of your application.
- Desktop integration: desktop files, icons, cursor themes and session management.
- Themes and plugins: desktop themes, widgets, desktop scripting, KRunner plugins, SonicWin scripts and effects, window decorations, task switchers, wallpapers and comic plugins.
- Ecco: add your own actions to the file manager's context menu.
- Sensor faces: create new display styles for System Monitor.
- System administration: lock down deployments with Kiosk, and set default favorites, About page branding and portal permissions.
- Mobile interface: the shell for phones, porting a device and the telephony stack.
- D-Bus: how to call and offer D-Bus interfaces from your own code. SonicDE is gradually moving its own communication between processes to Sonic IPC.
- Human Interface Guidelines: how to design applications and icons that feel at home on SonicDE.
To write applications or plugins against the Sonic-DE libraries, see the API Documentation.