Help to port plasmoid plasma5 to plasma6

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on my laptop with freshly installed leap 16.0 running KDE 6.4.2
I would like to port my (very simple) plasmoids from plasma5 to plasma6, the plsmoid should show the standard out result of a command.

I tried something and get something that doesn’t give errors but I cannot get the result

this is the code of the plsma5 plasmoid:

import QtQuick 2.2
import org.kde.plasma.core 2.0 as PlasmaCore
import org.kde.plasma.components 2.0 as PlasmaComponents

Rectangle {
    radius: 20
    opacity: 0.5
    width: 500
    height: 80
    id: mainitem
    property string userName


    PlasmaComponents.Label {
    
        text: i18n(userName)
	font.pointSize : 30
	color: "red"
    }


    PlasmaCore.DataSource {
        id: whoamisource
        engine: "executable"
       
        connectedSources: ["hostname"]
        onNewData:{
            mainitem.userName = qsTr("host= ") + data.stdout
        }
    }
}

this is the plasma6 plasmoid that gives no error and no result:

import QtQuick
import org.kde.plasma.plasmoid
import org.kde.plasma.core as PlasmaCore
import org.kde.plasma.components as PlasmaComponents
import org.kde.plasma.plasma5support as Plasma5Support


PlasmoidItem {
    id: root

    Rectangle {
        radius: 20
        opacity: 0.5
        width: 500
        height: 80
        id: mainitem
        property string userName
    }

    // Full representation (when on desktop)
    fullRepresentation: PlasmaComponents.Label {
        text: i18n(userName)
        font.pixelSize: 40
        color: "red"

    }
    Plasma5Support.DataSource {
        id: executableSource
        engine: "executable"
        connectedSources: ["whoami"]
        onNewData: {
            mainitem.userName = data["stdout"]
        }
    }

}

could somebody help me to have the same result of plasma5 plasmoid with plasma6 plasmoid?

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  1. I know most people don’t like it, but posting your code into chatgpt might give you hints what might cause unexpected behaviour.
  2. Always specify that you need a Plasma 6 qml.
  3. Don’t just copy/past the sollutions it gives. analyse the sollutions and test it.
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Tested it locally for you: you have ported correctly, just change text: i18n(userName) to text: mainitem.userName, it’s as silly as that, just an unqualified access error : D

You also don’t really need i18n for the username since the resulting string won’t/shouldn’t be translatable.

And to remove the annoying warning about “injection of parameters into signal handlers” you can just use: onNewData: (connectedSources, data) => mainitem.userName = data["stdout"].

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Everything in my Plasma repo was made with Google Gemini; test it for yourself and form your own opinions.

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maaanythanks, this works

[code]

import QtQuick 2.0
import org.kde.plasma.plasmoid
import org.kde.plasma.core as PlasmaCore
import org.kde.plasma.components 3.0 as PlasmaComponents3
import org.kde.plasma.plasma5support as Plasma5Support
import QtQuick.Controls 2.5
import org.kde.kirigami 2.4 as Kirigami

PlasmoidItem {
id: root

Rectangle {
    radius: 20
    opacity: 0.5
    width: 500
    height: 80
    id: mainitem
    property string userName
}

// Full representation (when on desktop)
fullRepresentation: PlasmaComponents3.Label {
    text: mainitem.userName
    font.pixelSize: 40
    color: "red"

}
Plasma5Support.DataSource {
    id: executableSource
    engine: "executable"
    connectedSources: ["whoami"]
    onNewData: (connectedSources, data) => mainitem.userName = data["stdout"]
}

}

[/code]

6

I tested with plasmawindowed, but I cannot use on desktop becouse if I try to put the plasmoid on the desktop plasma6 says that it is not compatible with plasma6 and doesn’t allow me to drag on desktop

7

I literally just copied that to the local plasmoid I used for testing here and it works fine.

Did you also change the metadata.json? If it’s not modified to use Plasma 6, the plasmoid will be considered a Plasma 5 thing by default.

Example:

{
    "KPackageStructure": "Plasma/Applet",
    "KPlugin": {
        "Authors": ["Konqi the Konqueror"],
        "BugReportUrl": "https://example.com",
        "Icon": "start-here-kde",
        "Id": "org.kde.someplasmoid",
        "License": "GPL-2.0+",
        "Name": "Some Plasmoid",
        "Description": "A plasmoid test"
    },
    "X-Plasma-API-Minimum-Version": "6.0",
    "X-Plasma-Provides": [
        "org.kde.someplasmoid"
    ]
}
8

me too copyed in /home/eros/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/

the folder name is “org.kde.pla.hostname.6” like in metadata.json

and yes I changed the metadata.json in this way

[code]

{
“KPackageStructure”: “Plasma/Applet”,
“KPlugin”: {
“Authors”: [
{
“Email”: “pier_andreit@yahoo.it”,
“Name”: “pier”
}
],
“Category”: “Utilities”,
“Description”: “Plasmoid for viewing hostname”,
“Icon”: “arrow-up-double”,
“Id”: “org.kde.pla.hostname.6”,
“License”: “GPL-2.0+”,
“Name”: “pla.hostname.6”,
“Version”: “0.1”,
“Website”: “https://tuosito.it”
},
“Plasma”: {
“APIStyle”: “declarative”
}

}

[/code]

9

maaanythanks, I modified in this way and this works :grinning_face:

[code]

{
“KPackageStructure”: “Plasma/Applet”,
“KPlugin”: {
“Authors”: [
{
“Email”: “pier_andreit@yahoo.it”,
“Name”: “pier”
}
],
“Category”: “Utilities”,
“Description”: “Plasmoid for viewing hostname”,
“Icon”: “arrow-up-double”,
“Id”: “org.kde.pla.hostname.6”,
“License”: “GPL-2.0+”,
“Name”: “pla.hostname.6”,
“Version”: “0.1”,
“Website”: “https://tuosito.it”
},
“X-Plasma-API-Minimum-Version”: “6.0”,
“X-Plasma-Provides”: [
“org.kde.pla.hostname.6””
]
}

[/code]

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