Bug 346890 - Not able to add widgets from Plasma Addon Installer
Summary: Not able to add widgets from Plasma Addon Installer
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Widget Explorer (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3.0
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2015-04-29 07:56 UTC by Saurabh Minni
Modified: 2021-03-04 19:31 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Saurabh Minni 2015-04-29 07:56:05 UTC
After installing widgets from Plasma Addons Installer, it does not show up as an option to add to desktop

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install any widget which you dont have from Plasma Addons Installer
2. Close and go to desktop, Right click and select Add Widget option
3. Scroll through the list

Actual Results:  
Newly installed widget is not in list

Expected Results:  
Newly installed widget should be in the list

This is true for any widget regardless. Though the plasma Addon says widget is installed, it is missing from the list in Add widgets screen
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-04-29 21:54:07 UTC
Works here, you've marked you're using the beta
Can you try with the final release?
Comment 2 Saurabh Minni 2015-05-02 14:00:33 UTC
Have been on the latest release of Kubuntu, its still not working. Anything I can do to help me in debugging the issue.
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2015-05-04 15:50:58 UTC
Which one did you install?
Comment 4 Saurabh Minni 2015-05-05 05:46:59 UTC
I was trying to install Network Monitor widget https://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=169377

I tried with a few others as well, same result.
Comment 5 Saurabh Minni 2015-05-11 08:52:54 UTC
I was trying to install Network Monitor widget https://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=169377

I tried with a few others as well, same result.
Comment 6 Marco Martin 2015-05-12 10:22:23 UTC
works fine here, i tried yahoo weather widget..
perhaps some plasmoids are not provided as correct packages, but as stuff to be installed by make install (maybe because they need a c++ part)
so installing those would be broken. That was a problem already with kde4 plasmoids ghns, opendesktop also doesn't give enough info on what are the ones that can be installed and ones that can't so i don't see it solvable while we use kdelook
Comment 7 Saurabh Minni 2015-05-14 06:45:53 UTC
Can anyone suggest me a work around with installing these widgets please.  I would really want to get this Network Monitor widget https://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=169377
Comment 8 Marco Martin 2015-10-28 16:00:56 UTC
try to download the file then install it with 
kpackagetool5 -i filename
Comment 9 Alexander Mentyu 2018-02-19 13:23:19 UTC
Is there a way to determine when addon isn't working properly after installing - and maybe mark it with some label - like 'may not work' or something in addons list?
Comment 10 Patrick Silva 2018-02-20 15:39:07 UTC
cannot confirm on Arch Linux, plasma 5.12.1.
I tested simple menu and netowrk monitor mentioned in comment 4.
Comment 11 Nate Graham 2021-03-04 19:31:41 UTC
This was fixed a while ago.