SUMMARY packagekit-qt6 package is installed on my system. Several apps installed from Arch repos (Dolphin and Konsole, for example) are missing from 'Installed" page. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. install packagekit Discover backend 2. open Discover 3. click on "Installed" in the sidebar OBSERVED RESULT several apps installed from distro repos are missing EXPECTED RESULT all apps installed from distro repos are listed SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.90.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.246.0 Qt Version: 6.6.1 Graphics Platform: Wayland
Do *any* apps from distro repos show up on that page?
yes, these and a few other apps from Arch repos show up: yakuake kdenlive kolourpaint elisa firefox chromium browser blender gimp vlc player
For me no PackageKit apps show up on the installed page. :(
I am not sure how actionable this is. There are various levels of filtering going on there (some of which sits in the packagekit backend even). On neon the list seems fairly complete.
Is there a way to see what's being filtered at the PackageKit level?
Don't think so. Depends on the backend specifically. I now I've seen at least one backend filtering out packagekit itself e.g.
I'm confused here because this wasn't happening in the Plasma 5 version of Discover. Since it's new to Plasma 6's Discover, I don't understand why it would be caused by an underlying PackageKit problem, unless that problem happened to be introduced with the Qt6 port ot PackageKit-Qt.
The problem hasn't really been identified. Patrick has a problem on Arch, which advises against using discover anyway and is poorly supported by packagekit. You have a general problem with listing which sounds different? Meanwhile everything seems to work fine on neon. Making me think it's either the backends or the specific setups you two have. What action do I take here?
Well, we can go back to Patrick's original bug and ignore my attempted hijacking of it for a potentially different issue, and see if a fix for that fixes my issue. Yes, Arch maintainers don't like PackageKit, but Discover does support using it on Arch. So unless we're going to declare this use case unmaintained or out of scope, I think bug reports about it are valid.
Fair.
Fixed by Harald Sitter with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/b971ab0d352114b597978b6b24ad8c31bdf76e0b for Plasma 6.1. It may end up backported too.
6.0 also https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/47e46dec31c28ff1509cb639fd220989d4110dab