After Rebooting the Webslice is blank

[darkufo]

I've got a webslice that displays a Google Sheet.

eg like this (Note this is just an example and not a real link)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/24824wriuweiuryw23425258223852/pubhtml/sheet?headers=false&gid=2012374755&range=A1:A7

This works great. The sheet is displayed and refreshes correctly.

However, whenever I reboot the webslice is blank/empty.

If I edit it, put another link in eg https://bbc.co.uk and click Apply the webslice displays the BBC site, If i then put back my link it works.

Why is it not displaying correctly after a reboot?

[kettumatti]

I can confirm this bug.
It also goes blank when you open configurations. Resizing makes it work again.
(Plasma 5.24.4, KDE Frameworks 5.90.0, Qt 5.15.2)

[zelch]

I've got a fix, but sadly this project looks dead.

So I think I'm forking the whole thing, joy?

[zelch]

Alright, the fork is up: https://www.pling.com/p/2117779/

If you could test it and make sure that it works for you, it would be very much appreciated.

[Cqoicebordel]

The project is dead because I'm still on Kubuntu 20.04 and can't test anything. And can't release anything I haven't tested, obviously.
Moreover, this plasmoid was built by me stumbling and running into walls, trying it make anything work. It's a huge kludge.

So yeah, I welcome the fork, and appreciate the shoutout on Pling.
I'll just ask, if you are willing, to add a link to my version on Pling in the shoutout : It's not so much for the credits (but I'll take them anyway ;) ), but rather to have a continuity on the versions and features, as I see you version removed the button feature, and don't provide the "legacy" Plasma 5.18- version either (which is natural). But people might want them.
Don't feel obligated, if you don't want to, you are free. I just want to facilitate the life of the users :)

And thanks for the work and appreciating (part of) mine :)

[zelch]

Rather understood on being stuck on 20.04.

And done on the link. :)

If you were interested, I wouldn't mind the idea of a shared project of some sort, so if/when our situations are reversed stuff still gets updated, and bug fixes don't get lost.

[Cqoicebordel]

I totally agree.
The easiest would be to do pull request on this repo. The only thing is, I'll have to trust "some sort of QA" was done. I don't mean a full regression test, but some kind of assurance the fix didn't break anything major. And as I can't do it, I'll have to trust someone else (which is fine, I'm just saying that I'll have to trust that the person have done more than a 30 sec test, and has tried at least a few scenarios (let's say more than 30 s but probably less than 10 min)).

Also, I can't accept removing a feature to fix a bug. Most, if not all of the features were implemented because I use them, or because someone asked for them.

Beyond that, feel free to redo everything if needed. As I said, most of it are kludges, using sometimes undocumented features of Plasma 5 (at least, at the time).
Also, I have no idea what will be necessary to port to Plasma 6, and knowing it was coming made me a little (a lot) nervous.

Anyway, have fun :)

[zelch]

Towards the end of ripping out the feature, I made some progress on figuring out why things sometimes broke, but I'm not nearly as confident in that as I'd like to be.

I did definitely notice that there were things going on that I couldn't find in any of the documentation. :)

[Node815]

I really really really hope this gets ported to KDE 6. :) Glad to see some progress!!!!

[Cqoicebordel]

Ok I finally fixed this bug in the trunk of this repo.

The issue was the default size set.
Before, it was

width: (displaySiteBehaviour) ? 0 : webPopupWidth
height: (displaySiteBehaviour) ? 0 : webPopupHeight

and now it's

width: (displaySiteBehaviour) ? parent.width : webPopupWidth
height: (displaySiteBehaviour) ? parent.height : webPopupHeight

So, the size was set to 0:0. Now, it fills the parent, which, hopefully is the plasmoid.
I'm not releasing it right now (probably in a few days though), because I want to have a look at others things first, but if you want to test it, go ahead, and modify ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/cqcb.plasma.webslice/contents/ui/mail.qml, ~l124. I suspect there may be bugs where pixels are not equal to virtual pixels (when the desktop is zommed in or out), but we'll see.

[kettumatti]

Hello Cqoicebordel,
I tested your bug fix and now Webslice works like before. Thank you!