Where has org.kde.plasma.kickoff gone ?

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Hi,

Our local school is 100% Linux. Currently all the desktop clients are running Rocky Linux 9 with KDE from the third-party EPEL repository. I’m considering deploying OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a host of reasons, notably support for legacy and recent hardware.

Usually I’m tweaking KDE’s default configuration for better usability, either with Ansible or with a series of bone-headed shell scripts.

Here’s the setup I’m using to modify the list of default launchers showing in the taskbar. This works perfectly under OpenSUSE:

PLASMA="/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids"
TASKBAR="$PLASMA/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/config/main.xml"

echo "=== Configure KDE desktop environment ==="
echo

echo "Configuring taskbar."
sed -i -e 's/applications:systemsettings.desktop/applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop/g' $TASKBAR
sed -i -e 's/applications:org.kde.discover.desktop/applications:firefox.desktop/g' $TASKBAR
sed -i -e 's/preferred:\/\/filemanager/applications:thunderbird-esr.desktop/g' $TASKBAR
sed -i -e 's/preferred:\/\/browser/applications:libreoffice-startcenter.desktop/g' $TASKBAR

And here’s what I use on KDE 5.x under Rocky Linux to modify the default Kickoff menu:

KICKOFF="$PLASMA/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/config/main.xml"

echo "  Configuring Kickoff menu."
sed -i -e 's/preferred:\/\/browser/firefox.desktop/g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.kontact.desktop/thunderbird.desktop/g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/writer.desktop,libreoffice-writer.desktop/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop/g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.digikam.desktop,//g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.kate.desktop,//g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/systemsettings.desktop,//g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.Help.desktop,//g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.khelpcenter.desktop,//g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.konsole.desktop//g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/org.kde.dolphin.desktop,/org.kde.dolphin.desktop/g' $KICKOFF
sed -i -e 's/suspend,hibernate/logout/g' $KICKOFF

The problem is, the org.kde.plasma.kickoff directory in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids is gone. It’s nowhere to be found, and I can’t seem to identify its replacements.

On a side note, I love KDE, been using it since version 2.4. But their developers have a knack for moving targets.

Any suggestions ?

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