Bug 156698

Summary: plasma does not let me remove a "Applet Creation error" applet from panel
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: manolis <manolis>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description manolis 2008-01-26 12:02:28 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 
OS:                Linux

I write my own plasma applect and for testing purposes I installed in my kde4.0 machine.
The applet is still problematic and gives an "Applet Creation Error" in desktop.
If I add it to desktop I can remove it with the X button.
In panel though there is no option to remove it with right click, although I can remove other applets from panel.

Notice that even I add it to desktop or panel there is no instance showing on the "Add applet List" so I cannot remove it from there also.
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-13 00:29:34 UTC 
there is both a context menu as well as the add applets menu. for testing, btw, you may want to try plasmoidviewer instead.
Comment 2 David Laban 2008-02-24 12:35:07 UTC 
Sorry to re-open your bugs, but:

If I get a "This object could not be created" message, right-clicking on the text of the message should let me remove the applet.

This currently doesn't work. It means that panel applets that are borked can only be removed if you can find them in the list (which means you need to know the applet's name, which is not provided in the error message)

You get the idea.
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-24 19:45:43 UTC 
there is already an open BR for the panel case.