Bug 432592

Summary: System monitor Sensor widget does not work well in text only mode in a panel
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: supgesu
Component: System Monitor widgetsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: ahiemstra, leodream2008, nate, notmart, supgesu
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.20.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.2.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description supgesu 2021-02-07 00:56:57 UTC
SUMMARY

Hi, I want to see my current network up/down activity as text (something like 5 Mb/s down, 20 Kb/s up).
Luckily there is a widget called "System monitor Sensor".

It does exactly what I need. I just put it on the desktop and set it to text only mode. It looks fine there:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/uploads/c3f52c38887a41fdbc181d1850846f2b/image.png

However I want to see this information also while running maximized windows. So I put the widget in my panel at the top of the screen so that is is always visible. I also set it to display text only.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add the widget "System monitor Sensor" configured to display network activity on a panel
2. Change the display type to text only

OBSERVED RESULT

This is what it looks like, not displaying any text, looking broken:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/uploads/34eeabad6056af714f9f3bfa78189e63/image.png


EXPECTED RESULT

And this is how I imagine it should look like:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/uploads/b0ba9fd6e118c2a454ccbe00d30c432e/image.png


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro / Plasma 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Here is a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS9qNQOzNh0
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-08-28 03:55:12 UTC
This should finally be fully fixed in Plasma 6.2.0.