Superkaramba widgets not working in Lucid

[davidmb]

Hi,

I have recently installed Kubuntu Lucid and all seems to be fine except for not being able to add Superkaramba widgets to my plasma desktop.

To add support for Superkaramba widgets, I installed plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba.
Then, at the plasma desktop, installed the widget from a local SKZ file and once added to the desktop all that can be seen is the message "Could not create this object because: Could not find the package sk_28165-cm9 required by the graphic component CrystalMonitor 9" (in Spanish):

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9595/superkarambaerror.png


I have tried other widgets downloaded from kde-look.org with the same luck.

Also tried:


When run from the command line (plasmoidviewer "CrystalMonitor 9"), the result is the same and some log info is displayed:
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No existe el fichero ó directorio
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/david/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
plasmoidviewer(4209)/kdecore (services) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "" not found
plasmoidviewer(4209)/kdecore (services) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "" not found
plasmoidviewer(4209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)
When run inside Superkaramba's desktop application, all widgets work fine, but they are not plasmoids and Superkaramba itself consumes quite a lot of CPU.

What am I missing?
Can anyone provide any clues? Is this a bug?

Thanks!

[davidmb]

After digging a bit, I have managed to fix this issue (yes, I reckon this is a KDE bug).

So, first of all, it seems only SKZ (ZIP format) widgets are accepted by the Superkaramba plasma engine.
In addition, to see them on plasmoidviewer, their name must be prefixed with sk_. If unsure, you can list all installed plasmoids with:

plasmapkg -l

Anyway, the bug that prevents running these widgets on plasma is that the Superkaramba installer doesn't create the metadata.desktop file in the plasmoid's directory.
Luckily, the fix is easy because the very same file is created in a different location:

cp ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/plasma-applet-sk_YOURWIDGET.desktop ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/sk_YOURWIDGET/metadata.desktop

[Blue Rose]

Thanks :D it worked for me :-)

[mihas]

Wow :) topic about my plasmoid. : proud :

Btw ... If anyone (still) interested I'm developing new version, fully customizable via web interface.

[davidmb]

Hey mihas, that's great!

I found your Crystal Monitor 9 widget cool, stylish and compact, even though I had to tweak it a bit... ;-)


http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/415/crystalmonitor.png


Anyway, thanks a lot and keep the good work! :-)