Bug 156873

Summary: newly compiled applets do not show up until a new session is started
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Stefan Majewsky <majewsky>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Stefan Majewsky 2008-01-28 22:27:17 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I have compiled and installed a new applet from source (after having changed the CMakeLists.txt to install the applet to my local SVN build). However, the applet did not show up in the "Add widget" dialog. The only way to make it appear was to exit KDE and start a new session.

Instead, I would prefer that the "Add widget" dialog check for newly added widgets when opened.
Comment 1 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2008-01-29 08:29:14 UTC
You could simply restart plasma instead of the whole KDE session.
Comment 2 Stefan Majewsky 2008-01-29 15:19:46 UTC
In fact, I did try `pkill -SIGTERM plasma; plasma` but it did not change anything for me.
Comment 3 Sebastian Sauer 2008-01-29 15:51:47 UTC
iirc Plasma applets are using those *.desktop files and they are cached by kbuildsyscoca. So, a "kbuildsyscoca --noincremental" (not sure if the option is needed) should update that list.
Comment 4 Sebastian Sauer 2008-01-30 20:04:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152530 ***