I updated my system today, and two applets (Kara and Window Title, both by dhruv8sh) are broken. They were relying on private imports that I assume have been removed: Kara used org.kde.plasma.private.pager and Window Title used org.kde.plasma.private.appmenu. Looking at the commits in Plasma, it seems that the pager was converted to use plasma_add_applet and the import to plasma.applet.org.kde.pager. So I tried changing the import inside kara to be that as well, but that doesn’t work (it just says that plasma.applet.org.kde.pager is not installed. I tried to check for any files called pager inside /usr/lib/qt6/qml, but didn’t find any.
What is the correct way to approach or fix this? I’m not a fan of the default Virtual Desktops switcher (it’s too wide), and Kara seemed like the best alternative.
I was aware it had been opened there, but thanks for posting the link.
I was asking here, not as a complaint, but because there was the possibility of getting more views, and someone more knowledgeable about how this all fits together. I thought this was an acceptable place to ask, as it is for discussions regarding KDE. If it’s an issue that I asked here, I’ll delete my post.
No it’s not an issue bringing up the problem here, not at all. You just got the correct and logical answer.
The correct place to more fully discuss and fix this is to go to the creators. It’s their code, so they are the only people who can fix any issues. Or take merge requests with fixes. Or for someone to fork if it’s been abandoned
Ideally, you’d think a widget’s developer would test things is in beta versions of Plasma. But this doesn’t always happen, or last minute bugs arise
People who come here looking for info on these widgets will see that they are not alone, and the first reply points them to the relevant thread to follow.
It is worth noting that one of these widgets appears to be at least somewhat active, but the other is a fork of an old widget and hasn’t seen an update in two years.