Porting to Plasma 6?

[bayazidbh]

As per Nate's article. Does this already work in Plasma 6? Is it expected to be easy to port? Is there possibility of improving it so that you can install it from Get New Widgets just fine? Is there already a separate repo that someone/a group actively maintains?

We've been hacking it for a while now, but I hope this widget don't die and the pain points we've had could finally be fixed.

[ShalokShalom]

I found it can cause the panel to stay absent in "windows can cover" mode and Wayland.
The good thing is, that "windows can cover" gets deprecated and rewritten from scratch.

Is there possibility of improving it so that you can install it from Get New Widgets just fine?

Oh, so the kdecorations issue does also happen for you?

Is there already an issue open?

I would be up for testing.

I would also suggest to make this an official part of the KDE project.
As we might find more contributors this way.

[bayazidbh]

Is there already an issue open?

@ShalokShalom I believe that would be issue #193, though if you're on Fedora or Arch, the dnf and AUR packages are built correctly to solve that issue.

[ShalokShalom]

I was on Arch, and I recently switched to NixOS.

I will forward this to the packager there. 🙂
Thanks

[luisbocanegra]

As per Nate's article. Does this already work in Plasma 6?

Nope, fails to build. Will send build log later

Is it expected to be easy to port?

That would depend on how much plasma 6 changed to the parts this plugin uses

Is there possibility of improving it so that you can install it from Get New Widgets just fine?

Only way I think would be making it qml only and removing the features that require C++.
I am currently trying to do that so I can use plasma 6 (right now is just max/minimize close buttons, static svg elements) and in case this never gets ported at least will have that

Is there already a separate repo that someone/a group actively maintains?

Looking at forks at least, doesn't look like anyone is doing that

[pallaswept]

(right now is just max/minimize close buttons, static svg elements) and in case this never gets ported at least will have that

Would you be so kind as to share that? I don't use titlebars at all, so this applet is my only way of managing windows with the mouse (and sometimes I can only use the mouse, I'm disabled), and when plasma 6 is released in a few months, I'm totally screwed without this applet. If you've got something that works on plasma 6, I'd really appreciate having it, too.

[luisbocanegra]

I uploaded it here https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-simple-window-buttons

It is still in the same state as before because I haven't had time to work on it.

Currently only appears on maximized windows because that's how I use applet-window-buttons

[pallaswept]

I uploaded it here https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-simple-window-buttons

It is still in the same state as before because I haven't had time to work on it.

Currently only appears on maximized windows because that's how I use applet-window-buttons

You absolute legend, thank you so much ❤️

[moodyhunter]

Got a semi-working Qt6/KF6/plasma6 port on my fork, moodyhunter@4eae4e8
I'll experiment and test for days and possibly (if it doesn't break that much) PR it.

[jvyden]

@moodyhunter I've tried installing both your applet-window-title6 and applet-window-buttons6 forks, but they both still seem to show the 'unsupported widget' warning, and I can't add them.

I still seem to be able to run them in plasmoidviewer, though:

[luisbocanegra]

@moodyhunter I've tried installing both your applet-window-title6 and applet-window-buttons6 forks, but they both still seem to show the 'unsupported widget' warning, and I can't add them.

Probably it needs "X-Plasma-API-Minimum-Version": "6.0" try adding it

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/brightness/package/metadata.json?ref_type=heads

[moodyhunter]

True, I've added X-Plasma-API-Minimum-Version for both applets, try it now.

kwin 6 breaks my production machine and I'm forced to downgrade back to 5. :(

[VesperLlama]

@moodyhunter I installed your applet-window-buttons6 fork. But it's failing to start and giving the following error
module "org.kde.appletdecoration" is not installed

I am on Arch with Plasma 6 Beta 1 and have kdecoration installed. Did I miss something?

[pallaswept]

FWIW, I actually swapped out the window buttons addon for this beauty https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-panel-spacer-extended which already works on Plasma 6 too, so I'm ready for v6 now :)

[moodyhunter]

@moodyhunter I installed your applet-window-buttons6 fork. But it's failing to start and giving the following error module "org.kde.appletdecoration" is not installed

I am on Arch with Plasma 6 Beta 1 and have kdecoration installed. Did I miss something?

Can you check if /usr/lib/qt6/qml/org/kde/appletdecoration exists? it's owned by this package.

[luisbocanegra]

I installed https://github.com/moodyhunter/applet-window-buttons6 today in up-to-date Neon unstable and don't have the error @VesperLlama had

[VesperLlama]

Can you check if /usr/lib/qt6/qml/org/kde/appletdecoration exists? it's owned by this package.

I didn't have the folder in that location. It was in /usr/lib/qml/org/kde/appletdecoration on my system. I moved it to /usr/lib/qt6/qml/org/kde/appletdecoration and now it works fine.

Thanks for the help!

But what could have caused this problem?

[IF-tiger]

我安装了你的 applet-window-buttons6 fork。但它无法启动并给出以下错误 module "org.kde.appletdecoration" is not installed

我在 Arch 上使用 Plasma 6 Beta 1 并安装了 kdecoration。我错过了什么吗？

I installed successfully on my opensuse device
https://github.com/IT-Tagore/applet-window-buttons6/blob/master/README.md

[matiux]

@moodyhunter I have same problem with your package:

file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.windowbuttons/contents/ui/main.qml:26:1: module "org.kde.appletdecoration" is not installed

but /usr/lib/qt6/qml/org/kde/appletdecoration exists on my Arch Linux:

ls /usr/lib/qt6/qml/org/kde/appletdecoration
AuroraeButton.qml  libappletdecorationplugin.so  qmldir

[moodyhunter]

@matiux Hi, can you provide the plasmashell's output? i.e. the output when running plasmashell directly in your terminal.

[matiux]

@moodyhunter after restating now works... I don't know why :/

[witt-bit]

@matiux Hi, can you provide the plasmashell's output? i.e. the output when running plasmashell directly in your terminal. @matiux嗨，你能提供plasmashell的输出吗？即直接在终端中运行 plasmashell 时的输出。

❯ plasmashell
kf.svg: The theme "Otto" uses the legacy metadata.desktop. Consider contacting the author and asking them update it to use the newer JSON format.
kf.svg: The theme "Otto" uses the legacy metadata.desktop. Consider contacting the author and asking them update it to use the newer JSON format.
kf.plasma.core: The theme "Otto" uses the legacy metadata.desktop. Consider contacting the author and asking them update it to use the newer JSON format.
kf.plasma.core: The theme "Otto" uses the legacy metadata.desktop. Consider contacting the author and asking them update it to use the newer JSON format.