Bug 203006

Summary: Plasma workspace add-on installer shows only a limited number of downloadable widgets
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, kevin.kofler
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Patrick O'Callaghan 2009-08-07 21:08:44 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

On selecting Install New Widgets from the Add Widgets dialogue in Plasma, KDE appears to fetch a set of possible widgets from kde-look.org. However the number of widgets fetched is much smaller than the total number available on the site. For example, http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Device+Manager?content=106051 is not included.

Furthermore, the search function only seems to search among the downloaded set and not the full set. This makes it very difficult to install new widgets which happen to fall outside the downloaded set.

It's not clear if the downloaded set is simply the first N widgets available, or if some other criterion is being used.
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-08-07 21:56:54 UTC 
Merging with bug 199702. Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199702 ***
Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2009-08-08 05:58:59 UTC 
Not a duplicate. The "issue" here is that this is a C++ plasmoid and thus cannot be installed with GHNS, it has to be compiled for the individual distribution. Only plasmoids written in interpreted languages can be installed through GHNS.
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-08-08 06:02:52 UTC 
While it is true that a C++ plasmoid can't be installed using GHNS, the main subject of the report (limited GHNS results) it is indeed the same as the one in bug 199702. Let's say it is a mixed report. (as it was detailing two different issues). Regards