Can we add a better distinction for the source button next to the Install button? Perhaps even a simple downward arrow to indicate that it is in fact an additional menu.
Additionally, once open, why not remove the radio buttons entirely and just keep the text selection, similar to the way the UI works in the settings for example.
Attaching screenshots of the current UI:
and the reference from the Screen Edges page from System Settings:
Could it be a dark theme issue, or maybe Fedora-specific? I have the selection arrow here.
Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.0-14-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 Ă AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: IntelÂŽ Arc
Then you might just need to check and tweak the specific color scheme, perhaps, or try different ones. I have zero idea where to start on that, though. Color schemes can be complex. Or see if the theme or color schemeâs creator might know what to tweak.
the arrow shows on my default breeze install
but only if i choose the middle option in the search result (the one not listed as a flatpak)
if i choose either of the other two it does not offer the Sources menu.
perhaps we can fix that bit of the UI
as for the radio buttons, i rather like them as they clearly indicate what is selected rather than relying on highlights which can also get lost with bad theming.
and one of the BEST features that only kubuntu seems to care about is that it shows you the version info right in the sources menu so you can see what you are getting.
itâs too bad fedora and neon users donât get that⌠i wonder how many others suffer.
Thatâs because these are three different apps, plus only one is available in multiple formats.
That is a plasma 5 thing, not a Kubuntu thing. This shows the package version. This may not always line up cleanly with the software version, and if the deb package leads with an Epoch number, it is even more confusing.
well i guess the snap is a mobile version of the app, so thatâs understandable i guess, but the native and flatpak desktop apps are the same app, just different versions with a different title in the card.
this happens a lot in discover when there are multiple sources of the same app.
the how close is close enough we you are comparing apples and some other flavor of apple⌠i mean techcially the flatpak is a separate built so itâs a âdifferent appâ but does that matter to human?
so are you saying that in plasma 6 we will no longer see that information?
that is one the best features of the âsourcesâ drop down menu.
i guess this will be one of the first bug reports i file after i upgrade to 26.04.
Xournal++ is not the same thing as Xournal.
This example happens to highlight what epoch versions in Debian packaging look like. Xournalâs version here is actually 0.4.8.
I donât necessarily disagree with showing versioning info in the pulldown. It is my quick guess that it is a bit duplicative since the dropdown covers any version info already shown on the app page, and likely caused complaints.
Why wait? It is a KDE thing, not a Kubuntu one, and probably has been a thing for quite a long time.
when i install the xournal (no pluses) from the native repositories i get the Xournal++ and the version is 1.2.2 just as shown in the discover drop down.
so they are indeed the same application and the version numbers shown are indeed correct⌠also having them shown in the pulldown allows me to avoid have to click on each one individually to see which one is the more recent version.
i will wait until iâm actually using plasma 6 before i start writing bug reports against it, but i would encourage anyone else with standing to go ahead and file one.
plasma 6 discover would appear to be regression from where i stand.
Very odd.
arm@arm-hpelitedesk800g3dm35w:~$ apt search xournal
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
xournal/noble,now 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4 amd64
GTK+ Application for note taking
xournalpp/noble 1.2.2-2build3 amd64
Xournal++ - Open source hand note-taking program
arm@arm-hpelitedesk800g3dm35w:~$ apt policy xournal
xournal:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4
Version table:
1:0.4.8.2016-7build4 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
arm@arm-hpelitedesk800g3dm35w:~$ apt policy xournalpp
xournalpp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.2.2-2build3
Version table:
1.2.2-2build3 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
After installing:
$ apt policy xournal
xournal:
Installed: 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4
Candidate: 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4
Version table:
*** 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
arm@arm-hpelitedesk800g3dm35w:~$ apt policy xournalpp
xournalpp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.2.2-2build3
Version table:
1.2.2-2build3 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
I get the OG 10 year old Xournal version 0.4.8 on my Kubuntu 24.04 PC. I canât say how you get ++.
Maybe a bug in the old version of Discover that is not affecting mine?
so you think they âfixedâ discover , do ya?
iâm still using discover 5.27.12 and i literally installed the top item in the screenshot i posted above.
but if i do apt list xournal*, i get both
xournal/noble 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4 amd64 which is not what discover installed.
xournalpp/noble 1.2.2-2build3 amd64 which is what discover installed.
is the non âppâ version a GUI application or just command line application?
because i generally donât expect to find command line packages in discover⌠iâm in there searching for GUI apps exclusively.
i prefer how my discover works over whatever you got going on⌠if it ainât brokeâŚ
It is definitely better and less buggy/crashy than the Plasma 5 version, in my usage. I do use Plasma 5 on my second PC, so I use both iterations regularly. The Plasma 5 version has crashed on me at least 3 times just looking at this. I havenât seen a crash in the Plasma 6 version in ages.
âppâ = â++â so it is Xournal++, not the original xournal.
Xournal++ is a rewrite/continuation of the old Xournal, and is the preferred app in most cases anyway, as it has all the useful features.
So, if you clicked and installed âxournalâ (the top one in your image), and not âxournal++â or the mobile one, and you got Xournal++, then that is a big bug. I did the same as you in Plasma 5, as I had the same listing order as you and got the OG xournal.
ok, i figured out what is going on.
when i installed the deb version from discover i must have clicked on the flatpak and then selected the ubuntu source ⌠thatâs how i got to the âppâ version
if i install via apt from the command line i get the non âppâ version and when i go back into discover it is showing the top item as installed with the option to Remove.
i mistakenly thought the native version from the sources menu, was the top item in the search result.
so thatâs all sorted.
i still like the version numbers in the sources menu tho.
