Darths & Droids Plasma Comic Plugin

Plugin to present Darths & Droids within the Comic Strip viewer in KDE Plasma desktop.

Direct Installation from Source (KDE Plasma Users Only)

Required Dependencies

1. GNU make utility or equivalent
2. Zip utility

Direct Installation Process

1. Run make install from the root of the source code
2. Open the Comic Strip application on your desktop
3. Right-click within the application and select the Configure Comic Strip... menu item
4. Select the General tab if needed (it should be the default location)
5. Check the Darths & Droids box that should now appear as an option in the Comics selection
6. Click OK and the comic should now be viewable as a tab within the application

Testing on Mac OS

With Docker you may test (to some extent) the plugin on Mac OS.

Install Dependencies

1. GNU make utility or equivalent
2. Docker Desktop
3. XQuartz
4. Use Homebrew to install SOcket CAT multipurpose relay: brew install socat

Run within a Docker Image

make docker

The above script opens the KDE Comic Strip viewer in a minimalist session. Via X11 forwarding you should be able to see the application presented within your Mac desktop. Now you must activate the comic, starting with step 3 of the direct installation above.

The above command intentionally creates a temporary image without any saved state. This is ideal for active development, with frequent source changes.

In the minimalist environment you will not have full access to all the features of the Comic Strip viewer. The ~/.xsession-errors file is not populated without a full X Session. You will want to load KDE on a Linux VM if you need robust debugging.

For some level of debug within Docker you can set ENABLE_DEBUG = true in main.js. Doing so will prefix some log statements to the Alt text that appears over the comic images. A limited amount of text may be visible on hover; you can view more via the .conf files cached in the ~/.local/share/plasma_engine_comic directory.