The Dot tutorial series is an on-going series of articles for the dot.kde.org KDE news site. The tutorials themselves are all here, and you can find a discussion forum for each one on the dot.

The Dot Tutorial Series

The following tutorials are currently available, watch the Dot to find out about new additions.

• Writing Plugins For KDE Applications
  This tutorial aims to demonstrate how easy it is to write plugins for KDE 2 using KParts.
• Extending the KDE Panel
  This tutorial teaches you how to implement a simple panel applet using the panel applet API. It is a suitable task for an introduction to KDE programming.
• Creating a DCOP Interface
  This tutorial shows you how to create a DCOP interface to a KDE application.
• Creating Konqueror Service Menus
  This tutorial shows you how to create mimetype-specific actions in Konqueror's context menu (aka "servicemenus")

Resources For Tutorial Authors

• Topic Index
• HTML Template