Hello, The shortcuts to log off, reboot and shut down in the kicker menu randomly disappear for me. I don't know how to restore them, so every once in a while I have to remove the whole menu and re-add it to the panel. Usually after some days, one of the icons disappears (e.g. shutdown) and eventually a second or third button will also disappear. Why does this happen? And is there an easier way to restore my buttons, or can this be prevented completely? STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add start menu button to panel 2. Reboot and/or shut down daily OBSERVED RESULT At some random time, one or more buttons have gone missing – usually shutdown disappears first. EXPECTED RESULT Buttons should stay where I left them. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.21 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-73-generic (problem has persisted since several versions already) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I've seen this happen a few times in Neon myself after an interactive update. It went away with offline updates for me. Are you using the offline updates that get applied at reboot, or are you using interactive updates that get applied immediately?
I disabled offline updates.
Well, that's your problem, I'm afraid. Offline updates are designed specifically to solve this kind of issue. It's likely that a system update changed some of the low-level power management bits, such that Kicker stopped being able to see them until the power management system is restarted. Doing this at runtime would be quite intrusive and annoying, so applying the updates when restarting is the real solution to make this problem never happen again. If you find offline updates annoying, please do feel free to file bugs about the issues you encounter so we can improve the experience.
I am not going to use offline updates but honestly, I don't see how this has anything to do with shortcuts. If you make a shortcut to a removable location, the icon also shouldn't be removed when a drive is ejected. Similarly, it shouldn't matter whether Kicker can see power management.