Bug 443822

Summary:	Activities, widgets and wallpaper removed on upgrade to Plasma 5.23
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	Gauthier <g.guerin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jr, neon-bugs-null, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Gauthier 2021-10-16 08:20:29 UTC

SUMMARY
I use two activity, the default one with the default wallpaper and some note widgets and another one with a custom wallpaper and also some note widgets.

On reboot after upgrading to Plasma 5.23, I had no more activities listed (literary none - not even "default" - in the activity switcher), no more "Show in activities" menus, etc. I also lost all my note widgets.

On next reboot activities were back :) but note widgets were still gone on both activities and the wallpaper on both activities have been change to the new Plasma 5.23 (I know this is normal for the default one, but it should not be the case for the other one). Effectively it felt like they were like two brand new activities (only their names had been retained).

I know how to recover my notes so not a huge problem but I thought I should still report the behaviour as it does not seem great. Also it may or may not be Neon specific, I cannot test that right now.

Operating System: KDE neon 5.23
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-37-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

Comment 1 Gauthier 2021-10-19 09:57:19 UTC

Just to add to this.

Previous activities (before the upgrade) and note widgets were still present in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc but 2 completely new activities were also created in that file (with same ID as previous ones but with different containment numbers) and these were the ones used by plasmashell. This is why all configs were reverted and it looked like I had two completely new activities.

I had to create new notes widgets on the desktop, then replace the note widget IDs with the previous ones and restart plasmashell to get the notes back.

I also had to change the other settings, wallpaper, etc. manually.

Comment 2 Gauthier 2024-08-28 13:57:44 UTC

This is now outdated.