Bug 514412

Summary:	Missing info about Advanced Radio Player gstreamer plugin requirements
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Thorolf E.R. Weißhuhn <terw>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	cwo.kde, kde, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.12
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	ARP new issue page screenshot

Description Thorolf E.R. Weißhuhn 2026-01-10 14:40:12 UTC

Advanced Radio Player Widget presents an error: "Error: Your GTreamer installation is missing a plug-in." and no radio is played. 

Gstreamer was installed with the command given on the page that is linked from the ARP homepage
(https://invent.kde.org/saurov/arp  ==>> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/on-linux.html?gi-language=c):
```
apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-qt5 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
```

Installed are now
```
# apt search gst-plugins
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0/noble,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu4 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  GObject introspection data for the GStreamer libraries from the "bad" set

gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0/noble-updates,noble-security,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu0.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  GObject introspection data for the GStreamer Plugins Base library

# apt search gstreamer-plugins
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0/noble,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu4 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  GStreamer libraries from the "bad" set

libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev/noble,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu4 amd64 [installed]
  GStreamer development files for libraries from the "bad" set

libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0/noble-updates,noble-security,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu0.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  GStreamer libraries from the "base" set

libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev/noble-updates,noble-security,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu0.3 amd64 [installed]
  GStreamer development files for libraries from the "base" set

libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0/noble-updates,noble-security,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu1.2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  GStreamer development files for libraries from the "good" set

libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-dev/noble-updates,noble-security,now 1.24.2-1ubuntu1.2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  GStreamer development files for libraries from the "good" set

qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5/noble,now 1.2.0-5.2build4 amd64 [installed]
  GStreamer plugins from QtGStreamer - Qt 5 build
```

`apt` has many more plugins, but I hesitate to blindly install them all. Which one(s) is/are missing? 

It would be good to have the plugin requirements listed in the Readme (external pages may change without notice).

System and versions:
Advanced Radio Player 2.4, installed via Kubuntu `Add Widgets`
Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2026-01-10 15:33:45 UTC

Thank you for the bug report!

However Plasma 5.27.12 no longer receives updates or maintenance from KDE; active versions are 6.4 or newer. Please upgrade to an active version as soon as your distribution makes it available to you. Plasma is a fast-moving project, and bugs in one version are often fixed in the next one.

If you need help with Plasma 5.27.12, please contact your distribution, who bears the responsibility of providing help for older releases that are no longer receiving updates from KDE.

If you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to an active version, feel free to re-open this bug report.

Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2026-01-10 16:02:56 UTC

Advanced Radio Player Widget is a third-party addon and not officially supported by KDE developers. Please contact the author for assistance

Comment 3 Thorolf E.R. Weißhuhn 2026-01-11 09:52:56 UTC

Created attachment 188413 [details]
ARP new issue page screenshot

Comment 4 Thorolf E.R. Weißhuhn 2026-01-11 09:57:25 UTC

Thank you both for the instant explanations!

There seems to be a catch-22 here, because the ARP New Issue page points to here ("Please note that all bug reports and feature requests should be filed on bugs.kde.org and should never be raised here", see attachment). Should I raise an issue there about a misinformation, too, or is there something I have overlooked?

Comment 5 cwo 2026-01-14 12:28:06 UTC

(In reply to Thorolf E.R. Weißhuhn from comment #4)
> Thank you both for the instant explanations!
> 
> There seems to be a catch-22 here, because the ARP New Issue page points to
> here ("Please note that all bug reports and feature requests should be filed
> on bugs.kde.org and should never be raised here", see attachment). Should I
> raise an issue there about a misinformation, too, or is there something I
> have overlooked?

In this case, you can ignore the message that Invent displays - that applies only to official KDE software that does bug tracking on bugs.kde.org (and typically reserves Invent Issues for developer coordination).

Advanced Radio Player is a third-party widget that is hosted on Invent, and these projects may use whatever way of reporting issues the developer prefers, but unless they have a category on bugs.kde.org, not here.

However, the widgets seems to have seen no activity for two and a half years, so it seems likely the original developer abandoned it.

Comment 6 Thorolf E.R. Weißhuhn 2026-01-14 15:12:44 UTC

Thanks -- learning something new every day... And, I agree, it seems it is dead. Closing as no action is required.