SUMMARY As I don't use Partition Manager often, I keep having to re-acquaint myself with the interface. The "Refresh Devices" command in the Tools menu is the last place I look for that command and I wind up being annoyed that I have to hunt for it. It would make more sense to find it in Device menu, as the command is related to devices. I don't see the rationale for it being in the Tool menu when a tool is just a generic utility that doesn't have any other clear place in the interface. I also am a visual person, so I prefer to use the GUI than remember keyboard shortcuts. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. I want to refresh the device list. 2. Click on Device menu. OBSERVED RESULT Where is the Refresh command? EXPECTED RESULT "Refresh Devices" makes logical sense for it to be under the Device menu. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 6.3 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0 Qt Version: 6.8.3 Kernel Version: 6.11.0-24-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
I just checked, it is in Device menu. It is also in the toolbar. Not sure why you see it differently.
Created attachment 180753 [details] what the Device menu looks like
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I don't know why we have a discrepancy. I've attached screenshots of what I am seeing and the version of the program. How is this possible?
That is strange - just to check, if you temporarily rename the files ~/.config/partitionmanagerrc and ~/.local/state/partitionmanagerstaterc , does the issue remain?
Yes, it remains, no change on my end. I'll attach the screenshots of what I see after renaming those files and starting fresh.
Created attachment 180797 [details] Device menu again
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Are you sure you are not running some old version accidentally? Could you please double check in About dialog.
Also see here the latest master has this configuration: https://invent.kde.org/system/partitionmanager/-/blob/master/src/gui/partitionmanagerui.rc?ref_type=heads#L34 so clearly in the Devices menu.
(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #10) > Are you sure you are not running some old version accidentally? Could you > please double check in About dialog. Yes I'm very sure. I'm running PM from Neon User repositories. This is what apt shows for the package: >>> $ apt show partitionmanager Package: partitionmanager Version: 25.04.0-0zneon+24.04+noble+release+build18 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Neon CI <neon@kde.org> Installed-Size: 7,359 kB Depends: fdisk, kf6-kcolorscheme (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kconfig (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kconfigwidgets (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kcoreaddons (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kcrash (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kdbusaddons (>= 6.13.0), kf6-ki18n (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kio (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kwidgetsaddons (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kwindowsystem (>= 6.13.0), kf6-kxmlgui (>= 6.13.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libkpmcore13 (>= 25.04.0), libpolkit-qt6-1-1 (>= 0.200.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5), qt6-base (>= 6.8.3) Suggests: btrfs-progs, dosfstools, hfsplus, hfsutils, jfsutils, ntfs-3g, reiser4progs, reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs Homepage: https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kdepartitionmanager Download-Size: 2,535 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main amd64 Packages Description: file, disk and partition management for KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions. . Partition Manager supports a large number of file systems, including ext2/3/4, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT16/32, jfs, xfs and more. Note that to gain support for a specific file system other than ext2/3/4, you should install the corresponding suggested package. . Partition Manager is based on libparted (like gparted) and makes use of the KDE libraries for its user interface. N: There are 5 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them. <<< I'll attach screenshots of the about dialog versions again.
Created attachment 180834 [details] versions that KPMcore about dialog shows
Created attachment 180835 [details] versions that Partition Manager about dialog shows
Does KDE cache the menu layout somewhere?
I just did this and there was no change to the menus that I'm seeing: sudo apt purge partitionmanager sudo apt install partitionmanager
Okay, I just booted up a Live ISO of Neon User Edition, installed PM, and the menu structure looks as you say it should. So the issue is on my setup, which strangely has the exact same version of PM as exists from the Live ISO, which is 25.04.0-0zneon+24.04+noble+release+build18. This is driving me nuts. I'm examining and comparing my PM to the version of PM from the live ISO and there are other menu items that are not present, like in the Help menu I'm missing Find Action. I've also looked in the .cache directory to see if there's something that would pertain to menu caching but I don't see it. And since I purged/uninstalled PM and then reinstalled it again, I'm still seeing the same old, outdated menu structure. Have you heard of anything like this before?
(In reply to Michael from comment #17) > Okay, I just booted up a Live ISO of Neon User Edition, installed PM, and > the menu structure looks as you say it should. > > So the issue is on my setup, which strangely has the exact same version of > PM as exists from the Live ISO, which is > 25.04.0-0zneon+24.04+noble+release+build18. > > This is driving me nuts. I'm examining and comparing my PM to the version of > PM from the live ISO and there are other menu items that are not present, > like in the Help menu I'm missing Find Action. > > I've also looked in the .cache directory to see if there's something that > would pertain to menu caching but I don't see it. > > And since I purged/uninstalled PM and then reinstalled it again, I'm still > seeing the same old, outdated menu structure. Have you heard of anything > like this before? Nothing super obvious comes to my mind. If I remember correctly, menu structure is compiled into binary... So for some reason your build is broken but I have no idea why.
I'm going to close this and try to find a solution elsewhere, thank you for your patience.
Closing.