Unsupported widget help

[Xium]

Unsupported Widget - Unnamed, Can't Remove

I’m busy redoing my panels configuration. Whenever I open Edit Mode, and then go to Add or Manage Widgets, there’s this phantom widget that appears before all the others. Hovering over it says it is Unsupported. The issue is I’ve got no clue what widget it actually is. I would like to remove it, but I can’t find it. I checked under ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids, and there are four folders there, and each of those four is listed, so it’s not one of those. The only other place that plasmoids a…

It looks like this, I just tried what they did, I removed a bunch of packages I don’t use along with their dependencies and the cnt is still there.
I have looked in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/ and /home/xium/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/
Everything seems kosher.

It is driving me nuts, please help.

[Xium]

Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: UNSUPPORTED WIDGET FOUND:
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: name:
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: pluginName: metadata
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: description:
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: icon: application-x-plasma
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: category:
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: local: false
Feb 14 08:59:49 archlinuxium plasmashell[89122]: message: This Widget was written for an unknown older version of Plasma and is not compatible with Plasma 6. Please contact the widget’s a
uthor for an updated version.

wtf…..

[Xium]

Figured it out.

A github widget called tiledscreen.

The tiledscreen widgets have internal component metadata.json files in subdirectories

1. Plasma’s widget browser was scanning ALL directories and finding these internal metadata files
2. Since they don’t have proper KPackageStructure: "Plasma/Applet", they showed as “Unsupported Widget”
3. The fix was renaming them to tile-metadata.json and updating the Python loader scripts