no matter which kde os I use, it seems that only a handful of themes, icons, widgets, etc appear in the ‘get more’ dialogue box. can more show up from the kde store? thanks!
Unfortunately the system seems to be broken. For some time now it’s been getting less and less that it actually finds and presents to the user. There have been many many many reports on this and nothing seems to be done to fix it.
This is true - to begin with, I assumed it was due to the fragmentation (and a good way to remove obsolete items from your GUI)…
For example, browsing Pling you can see the files and categories for Plasma 5, Plasma 6…
It’s still possible to browse all there - and the GUI was never quite the best experience - so that’s my two-pennyworth.
Browse with Browsers, install with installers (same, IMO, goes for installing software… Firefox gets the information, package manager pulls them in - no need for a graphical browser separate from the web browser really).
Not the solution. The system needs to be fixed. As for the GUI not being the best experience yes it was at one time, AND for the longest time.
I’m glad to hear that, I only used Plasma for 8 years, so perhaps it was for a long time before that.
I remain rather skeptical of this claim, though, as I see no way that the GUI ‘get new stuff’ could be any way better than the browser - or that there has been any point in history that the browser has not been the saner choice.
The ‘GUI is better’ argument doesn’t hold up - integration with OpenDesktop API always had intermittent outages, broken metadata and slow response times. The GUI also lacks robust search, tag filtering, or sorting options - and you were always previously served up with a massive grab-bag of themes which included many that were many years old and completely broken.
Context is also vastly limited in GUI browsers - minimal context, no changelogs, author notes or user comments.
Previews were often low-res or completely misleading making it impossible to judge quality.
Then installed items often didn’t show up correctly, updates silently fail, or require manual intervention…
And let’s not start touching on Global themes… they often didn’t apply cleanly, especially across plasma versions.
The browser has always won out for me (for searching any kind of software) because you have full access, better control, no flaky API fails, no silent failures…
AFAIK it was introduced before I arrived (KDE 4). All my time with Plasma 5 I got broken links, Poor UX, and no transparency. There is currently an effort to improve the backend and UI and I would rather see a very limited number of useful results than a massive list of defunct options.
TL;DR
If anything is true, it’s better now than it ever has been.
Just my experience, and my opinion, which are sometimes completely wrong
Sorry but not even remotely accurate.
I’m done reading your replies, and I’m done responding or talking with you. Almost all of your content on here is simply trolling me.
I gotta say, I agree here. The “get more” links in the various parts of KDE Plasma’s widgets and theming options have pretty much been useless for years. Sure, there are a few goodies here and there, but nothing like it was back in the day. Very few themes and widgets from which to choose.
I only check the “get more” button once every couple of months or so, just to see if there are any improvements.
If I’m serious on getting themes, icons, widgets and so forth… I go the the KDE Store and download from there and install locally. Being an Arch KDE Plasma user, I sometimes find something I like and check to see if it’s available either in the Arch repos or the AUR.
You can use discover and it works better atm.
Pling as of late will temp block you form things if you go into something to look at it and back out. That and sometime ocs-url sometimes has issues of its own rare but happens an it puts something it the wrong spot. That and its search is not good if you are in kde/gnome stores an search it will take you out of the store to base pling. The filers on the left are in no order and are missing logical options. So you have to get real creative with the search terms. You also need multiple accounts to interact one for kde one for pling but this it more of a issue with core pling. It also fights you on emails to sign up with.
Its not bad overall and one of the few places to get kvantum themes in a logical way so I think it comes down to preference. It’s like side-loading stuff on ios and android most don’t do it and just use the built in tools. Pling doesn’t tell the user where thing should go, some people add it to the description but not many. You have to look it up and most are not going to be able to find Plasma themes and plugins | Developer or even know how to handle it depending on the generation. Since we are all at different skill levels