Bug 511370

Summary: Add button to re-check for updates after updates are are complete
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: BOF <bugs_kde_org.5.kuru>
Component: UpdatesAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: 4wy78uwh, aleixpol, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: junior-jobs
Version First Reported In: 6.5.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Discover - check for updates
Discover - check for updates - suggestion
task bar - update in right click menu

Description BOF 2025-10-30 11:06:55 UTC
Created attachment 186328 [details]
Discover - check for updates

SUMMARY
Currently Discover only shows you a button to restart and apply updates once the update process if finished. The suggestion is to have a button to check for new updates without restarting the app.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Discover
2. Apply updates that *require a restart*

OBSERVED RESULT
Currently there is just a UI button in the middle of the page to restart the system and apply the updates (even there is such a button when updates are not applied)
When I want to check for new updates I have to restart Discover.

Sidenote: Switching through the tabs on the left *after an update to system components* often leads into Discover crashing.

EXPECTED RESULT
Button to recheck for updates is kept in the UI.
My current workflow is to open Discover when I know I only need my PC for things I do not need the internet for so that I do not get limited by Discover using the bandwidth. The updates usually have long finished when I want to shutdown my PC.
Before I shut down my PC I usually apply the latest updates before I shutdown the machine. As I keep Discover open all the time, I have to restart the app to be able to do so. As I can apply updates 2 times without any problem I wouldn't expect searching and applying for updates a second time would break anything.
The button would do what it does anyway right now: Recheck for updates.

TLDR: Adding the button that exists before applying the update is enough for me.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-33-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 1 BOF 2025-10-30 11:11:29 UTC
Created attachment 186329 [details]
Discover - check for updates - suggestion

Suggestions as described: The button at the top to recheck for updates should be enough (at least for me)
Comment 2 BOF 2025-10-30 12:44:05 UTC
Created attachment 186332 [details]
task bar - update in right click menu

I just discovered that there is the function I was expecting in Discover in the right click menu (even I already updated the system).

This is actually what I would like to see in Discover as well
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-30 21:42:57 UTC
Git commit 12cbd765654bbd1ecfd9a1e60435c190856a22a7 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 30/10/2025 at 21:42.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

UpdatesPage: allow re-checking for updates when all finished
FIXED-IN: 6.6.0

M  +1    -0    discover/qml/UpdatesPage.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/12cbd765654bbd1ecfd9a1e60435c190856a22a7