MAKEKDEWIDGETS/(1)

💅 makekdewidgets — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is makekdewidgets from the Programming Tool section of the manual (section 1, iykyk). She builds Qt™ widget plugins from an ini style description file. That's the whole personality. Let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

makekdewidgets — builds Qt™ widget plugins from an ini style description file.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

makekdewidgets [Qt(TM)-options] [KDE-options] file

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically makekdewidgets builds Qt™ widget plugins from an ini style description file. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly 💖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

🍓 Arguments

• file — the input file. your whole source of truth, the moment 💅

🧚 Options

• -o <file> — output file. where the magic gets written ✨
• -n <plugin name> — name of the plugin class to generate. default is WidgetsPlugin
• -g <group> — default widget group name to display in designer. default is Custom
• -p <pixmap dir> — embed pixmaps from a source directory 🖼️

🌈 Generic options

• --help — show help about options
• --help-qt — show Qt™ specific options
• --help-kde — show KDE specific options
• --help-all — show all options. all of them. every last one.
• --author — show author information
• -v, --version — show version information
• --license — show license information

💜 KDE Options

• --caption <caption> — use caption as name in the titlebar
• --icon <icon> — use icon as the application icon
• --miniicon <icon> — use icon as the application icon
• --config <filename> — use alternative configuration file
• --dcopserver <server> — use the DCOP server specified by server
• --nocrashhandler — disable crash handler to get core dumps. yes this is the "let me see the wreckage" button 💀
• --waitforwm — waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager
• --style <style> — sets the application GUI style
• --geometry <geometry> — sets the client geometry of the main widget — see man X for the argument format

⭐ Qt™ options

• --display <displayname> — use the X-server display displayname
• --session <sessionId> — restore the application for the given sessionId
• --cmap — causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display
• --ncols <count> — limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification
• --nograb — tells Qt™ to never grab the mouse or the keyboard
• --sync — switches to synchronous mode for debugging
• --fn, --font <fontname> — defines the application font
• --bg, --background <color> — sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated)
• --fg, --foreground <color> — sets the default foreground color
• --btn, --button <color> — sets the default button color
• --name <name> — sets the application name
• --title <title> — sets the application title (caption)
• --visual TrueColor — forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display
• --inputstyle <inputstyle> — sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot, and root
• --im <XIM server> — sets XIM server
• --noxim — disable XIM
• --reverse — mirrors the whole layout of widgets 🪞

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• http://developer.kde.org — KDE Developer's Corner website

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😭 BUGS 😭

please use bugs.kde.org to report bugs, do not mail the authors directly. fr fr, they're asking nicely, respect the boundary bestie 🙈

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

• Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri@kde.org> — Author.

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📝 NOTES 📝

1. bugs.kde.org — http://bugs.kde.org

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and that's the whole page, no notes 💖 this gem is brought to you by the K Desktop Environment, dated 2006-06-01, and it lives at MAKEKDEWIDGETS/(1). slay, go build some widget plugins 🎀✨