Bug 417550 - KCalc is not installed but Discover says KCalc is installed
Summary: KCalc is not installed but Discover says KCalc is installed
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: discover (show other bugs)
Version: 5.18.0
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
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Reported: 2020-02-13 10:47 UTC by Andrey Bondarenko
Modified: 2020-03-02 12:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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KCalc is not installed but Discover says KCalc is installed (1.83 MB, image/png)
2020-02-13 10:47 UTC, Andrey Bondarenko
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Description Andrey Bondarenko 2020-02-13 10:47:51 UTC
Created attachment 125935 [details]
KCalc is not installed but Discover says KCalc is installed

I know that Kcalc app officially is not included in KDE and a user has to install it. let's see how an inexperienced user would do with Discover app.  

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. I go to Discover and search for "calculator"
2. I see that it has already been installed. I check that and see that I do not have this app installed. 
3. if i click "Remove" that will remove some useful additional packages. Which i did not of course. I have it installed via a command line

OBSERVED RESULT
this is not what a friendly os should do.  

EXPECTED RESULT
it is expected that Calculator should be present as default app installed. Or! any user should install it by himself via Discover app but not in that way as i described. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 15.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.13.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
i have a fresh KDE installation. this is not an update from the older versions
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-02-14 20:28:58 UTC
The Decision regarding what to install by default is up to the distro--in this case Neon--not Discover.

However, let's find out whether or not it really is installed! :) If you click on KCalc in that Discover list, is there a "Run" button in the top-right corner of the window? If there is, and you click on it, what happens? if you run `kcalc` in a terminal window, what happens?
Comment 2 Andrey Bondarenko 2020-02-14 23:18:44 UTC
Nate, like i said it earlier I had to install the Kcalc via a command line. but i remember that when I was searching for a calculator through a Launcher it showed me that I had not any calculator. So i searched for it in Discover. and it said that Kcalc was installed and the button Remove. I clicked it and a warning "Confirm package removal this action will also remove the folliwing packages (and the enumeration: Quick Share, Color Picker, Dictionary, Fuzzzy Clock, Notes, etc. (i have a screenshot) 
Now, after installing the app via a command line, i see it has the Remove, Launch buttons. I clicked Remove and the app has been removed without the warning that it would delete additional packages.
i will try to install Manjaro KDE and inform you if there is the error again.
Comment 3 Andrey Bondarenko 2020-02-14 23:37:31 UTC
sorry my mistake.of course, there is no Discover in Manjaro :-).
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-02-14 23:52:12 UTC
> I clicked it and a warning "Confirm package removal this action will also remove
> the folliwing packages (and the enumeration: Quick Share, Color Picker,
> Dictionary, Fuzzzy Clock, Notes, etc. (i have a screenshot) 
FWIW, this would be a packaging error in Manjaro by putting kcalc inside the `kdeplasma-extras` package. That isn't appropriate. You should ask them about that.
Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2020-02-15 00:31:13 UTC
Are you confusing KCalc with with Plasma calculator widget? The latter would indeed be in kdeplasma-addons.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-02-15 15:17:46 UTC
Ah, that does indeed look like what's happening. Thanks for the clue, Christoph!

So what's happening here is that you have the kdeplasma-addons package installed, which provides a widget calculator. This is a plasma widget, not a standalone app. It shows up in Discover, somewhat confusingly, as a standalone entry rather than as a component of the "Plasma addons" addon

You do not have kcalc installed. If you search for "kcalc" "or "calculator" in discover, does it reveal KCalc and allow you to install it?
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