Plasma 6 - Application Dashboard

In Plasma 6, multiple regression happened to the application dashboard, which is by far my favorite launcher. I did file bug reports and all that, but I would love to try to contribute by fixing some of the bugs. Where do I start and what are the required skills?

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ulterno@lemmy.kde.social · 1 pts · 2y

Woah! Didn't use the Dashboard for 6 months and now I see it has totally changed.
I might start using it as an alternative.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 1 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Can you program at all?

RuneF@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Yes, I am pretty adept with python and have played around with C and C++

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Great! Then you should look for the dashboard's git repository, compile it and look through the codebase to try and understand it.

RuneF@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

That is kind of where I am stuck - the repo only has a "metadata.json" file, nothing else.

ulterno@lemmy.kde.social · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I can't be sure, but think this is what you are looking for:
In: git@invent.kde.org:plasma/plasma-workspace.git Go to ->/plasma-workspace/applets/kicker/plugin/dashboardwindow.h

RuneF@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thank you!

ulterno@lemmy.kde.social · 1 pts · 2y

I just recently realised that all(well, most of) the plasma stuff was in the same package.
Got to this repo while looking for breeze sddm theme