The project’s name is “KDE Dashboard” - it’s aimed to be a mix starting from a modern application start menu which support favorite applications, an overview of all installed applications, over an overview of your favorite directories and drives until a (RSS) news reader, a widget column which supports Bing Wallpaper of the day, Random Unsplash image, your Calendar from Microsoft Hotmail/O365, Gmail or Owncloud/Nextcloud or a (currently not configurable) Broker widget and not to forget the Weather with forecast.
It’s still in development - currently it lacks of network error handling (if you are offline, you are lost in space without error messages )
You need at least the KDE 6.6.0 developer packages (including plasma desktop), QT developer packages 6.10.0, a c++ compiler (with C++ 17 langaugae support) and the sqlite development package.
If something is missing (maybe the kio dev package) please install it separately) - there are not a ton of packages needed, its mostly in plain QT and KDE written
You get a library installed and the qml files for the “frontend”/plasmoid.
If you need help, post it - i’m here
And, not to forget: thank you for your interest!
The text from the stock widget overflows on the trending view
I think that is supposed to be an image from unspash
I tried to add my own RSS feeds but I get no results. If I navigate to the URL in a browser, there is an RSS feed there.
The logs are filled with:
Feb 23 17:40:17 b-assist plasmashell[719]: Unable to fetch weather: unknown location
I don’t have a weather widget added.
When you say “Pin to start”, it moves to a selection called “Bookmarks”, the terminology should probably be aligned.
There are no icons.
I also have quite a few of these errors:
Feb 23 17:07:43 b-assist plasmashell[719]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.news.discover/contents/ui/StorageCard.qml:126:37: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
ive installed it, it doesnt have icons for the plasmoid itself, the settings button and the button next to it. and also i didnt see any settings for it in the default rightclick plasmoid setting page if yk what i mean.
looks good in development. tell me if an update comes pls
I grabbed the latest and rebuilt it and now I see:
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.news.discover/contents/ui/main.qml:14:1: module "org.kde.news.discover" plugin "discoverclientpluginplugin" not found
Totally out of scope: reading about “widgets” inside a plasmoid makes me think that there’s some duplicate work involved. Why not leveraging existing widgets/plasmoid instead of creating them at an higher level of abstraction? Certainly because it would take work, and the project would drift away: it would become creating something like a custom panel that’s not a panel because it can take the shape of a menu, or a grouping plasmoid (already existing) with additional and fixed elements like the session buttons. Or maybe it already works like this and could contain other plasmoids. What do you think?
do you have removed the wrong plasmoid in ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids and restarted the panel by clearing the plasma cache? sometimes the KDE plasma cache is the problem
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