At random times, often more than once a day, an icon of the “discover” app pops up to tell me that there are available updates.
Where do I find the configuration for it’s schedule?
under discover > settings you can change the update frequency.
click on software sources and enter your password
then under the updates tab you have a number of choices available to you, including turning off updates entirely.
Oh, I didn’t realize that it’s a button. Thank you very much.
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flattened UI FAIL!
you know when a trend has gone too far when you can’t even tell how anything works.
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It’s not a big deal, but I’ve noticed that there aren’t many options to configure the update frequency.
Personally I would like discover to look for updates only once, right after every system start.
EDIT: maybe I disable updates here and set up a start job with something else
I personally would like it to only check once a week. Kind of tired of getting an update notification every 10 minutes.
Not sure if it was different in Plasma 5, but that’s an option in Plasma 6 - in System Settings > Software Update (also accessible from Discover) 
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search settings for “driver manager” and under the update tab set your preferences.
That is specifically for Kubuntu. There should be distro-specific settings for this, so it is still a good idea to check it.
Plasma Discover’s settings probably won’t change a distro’s default update query frequency used by its native package management tools, so just changing Discover’s setting for this may not get rid of the notifications.
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its confusing.
it used to be you could access the “driver manager” dialog from within discover (actually sudo software-properties-qt), now you can only find it by searching settings (krunner can’t find it).
if you drill down into the discover … menu you can get to the same settings page as “software updates” (which you can find with krunner)… but we’re not sure changing these settings will actually affect the notifications or not???
and this is leaving out the whole plasma 6 set of churn as i’m still on plasma 5.
not trying to be critical, but this shows every sign of several balls being dropped along the way.
i would hope the goal is to eventually get to a place where plasma has the ball and each distro just hooks into whatever setting the GUI is set to and users can easily find it in discover (along with the now missing ability to add your own repositories).
The Software Properties tool (which includes a tab that contains the driver manager GUI) is purely Ubuntu, not a KDE tool at all. The link to it in System Settings is a custom kcm module.
The move to Debian’s deb822 format for the sources files breaks Packagekit’s deb plugin from being able to show the shortcut to the Software Sources tool, as well as the list of deb sources in Kubuntu. This is partially working now in KDE neon after some recent updates, perhaps it will be fully fleshed out by the time Debian 13 is released?
I do not believe that Discover itself has ever had any distro-specific packaging system settings other than toggling and maybe adding/removing repos, as far as I recall. This I believe may be out of Discover’s intended scope.
there were sources listed in discover back in 22.04 because that’s the way it was when i came into linux… tho it was still far easier to add them via synaptic.
when it comes time to add backports to 24.04, i’m not even sure how i would proceed now.
Yes, this actually linked to the Software Sources tool. Well, it used to. it uses its stock generic tool these days.
Use your distro’s tool: Software Sources in this case (use the Driver Manager link in System Settings as a workaround to get there), or use add-apt-repository as the desired PPA will show you, or as shown in an announcement, as has been done in the past.
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Found it. Thanks. Got it set for weekly.
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