Apdatifier

Arch Update Notifier

Features

• Notification for updates and news
• Searching updates for Arch (+AUR), Plasma Widgets, Flatpak
• Bash script with useful options for managing packages
• Two types of lists: compact and extended with additional information
• Button to initiate a full system upgrade in the selected terminal
• Option to refresh the mirrorlist with the latest mirrors filtered by speed
• Customizable icon on the panel and package icons in the list
• Also should work on non-Arch-based systems (for Plasma Widgets and Flatpak)

Screenshots

Compact/Extended list

       

Full system upgrade

Management

management.mp4

Requirements

pacman-contrib - optional, but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. For checkupdates and rankmirrors scripts.

Supported pacman wrappers

paru, yay

Supported terminals

alacritty, foot, gnome-terminal, konsole, kitty, lxterminal, terminator, tilix, xterm, yakuake, wezterm

Required utilities for options:

Plasma Widgets: curl, jq, unzip, tar
Mirrorlist Generator: curl, pacman-contrib
Management: fzf
News: curl, jq

Translation

Feel free to help translate to new languages or update and improve the ones that are already available. Please refer to the ReadMe.md for instructions on how to do it.

Current status:

|   Locale  |  Lines  | % Done|
|-----------|---------|-------|
| English   |     232 |       |
| Brazilian | 232/232 |  100% |
| Dutch     | 185/232 |   79% |
| French    | 184/232 |   79% |
| German    | 184/232 |   79% |
| Spanish   | 232/232 |  100% |
| Korean    | 136/232 |   58% |
| Russian   | 232/232 |  100% |
|-----------|---------|-------|

Installation

Just install directly from KDE Widget Store ("+ Add widgets..." -> "Get New Widgets..." -> "Download New Plasma Widgets").

After installation, the widget icon should automatically appear in the system tray.

Important

If you are upgrading from a previous version, you need to log out or restart plasmashell for the new features to work properly.

systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

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