Bug 311170

Summary:	Some plasma-applets cannot be selected.
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Pierre Jarillon <jarillon>
Component:	widget explorer	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	anaceciliamb
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.9.80 Beta1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mageia RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Pierre Jarillon 2012-12-05 02:01:33 UTC

When I want to add a graphic component, a list of widget appear. They are components installed in the system. If I want more components, I can select them in a list of remote widget. This work fine but some useful widget are missing: they are provided with the distribution but not installed in the computer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
An example with systemloadviewer...
Actual Results:  
systemloadviewer is provided by Mageia in a rpm which is in the core (main) source of rpm. If this rpm is not installed, il is not possible to select it because it is not in the list of remote widgets nor in the list of avalaible widgets.
Then, there is a secret list of plasma-applets...


Mageia bug: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8290

In the list of additional widgets it should be good to show all the widgets which are not locally available.

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-12-05 03:22:27 UTC

"If this rpm is not installed, il is not possible to select it because it is not in the list of remote widgets nor in the list of avalaible widgets."

Of course that is the right behavior. Why should a plasmoid  neither installed locally nor available through network be listed in the widget explorer ?

The fix is easy: install that plasmoid locally, or make it available through network.

Comment 2 Pierre Jarillon 2012-12-05 12:23:04 UTC

You think like a geek (I am also a geek!), but a beginner cannot know that a third class of widgets is available.
That is the reason why I suggest to show ALL widgets in the remote list. My suggestion is to show the official widgets included in KDE with green stars instead of yellow.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:14:04 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham