BigLancelot Launcher

[anon_private]

I believe that I have installed BigLancelot using Muon Discover.
I received the message that it is installed. However, I can't find it in Add Widgets?

I removed BigLancelot and re-installed the widget, but again I cannot find it in widgets

Advice please

KDE 4.13.3
KUBUNTU ver 14.04

[Rog131]

You could check the problem by launching the Muon Discover in the konsole.

The output at here: http://pastebin.com/VP0xpEe0

There are missing parts: "No metadata file in package "BigLancelot.skz""

The problem seems to be that the BigLancelot is not following the current knewstuff3/Get Hot New Stuff Specification.


Background

The Muon Discover is using KNewStuff3: https://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/category/kde/

The KNewStuff3 is KDE implementation of the GHNS: http://ghns.freedesktop.org/spec/ghns-spec.html

The Muon Discover is searching the plasma widget scripts from the KDE-Apps: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=112269

The KDE-Apps is part of the OpenDesktop: http://opendesktop.org/help/faq1.php

[anon_private]

Thank you for the information, much appreciated.

This explains why I could not find the widget.

I think I'll leave this one and make a decision regarding an application launcher from the widgets that I have installed.

Best wishes.

A

Ps. A note for the future. If I try to investigate a problem using Muon Discover and using the command prompt. Is the ciorrect procedure to run this command straight after noticing a download problem. The command looks like muon-discover. Should this be an elevated command?

[Rog131]

Is the ciorrect procedure to run this command straight after noticing a download problem.

The KDE/Qt applications output the error information to the stderr. You could search the error messages from the ~/.cache/upstart/startkde.log or simply run the application from the teminal (konsole) and see the error message right away.

The command looks like muon-discover. Should this be an elevated command?

Only if you really want to use the root/admin rights. The Muon family should ask the administrative rights when it needs them. The plasma widget scripts installed via the KNewStuff3 don't need special rights. They are downloaded and unpacked to the user's home.

Downloaded to the /tmp/kde-<username>/.
Unpacked to the ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/<plasmoidname>/ and the desktop part to the ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/.

[anon_private]

Just thought I would try to start Muon Discover from the terminal.

The programme started, but I did get a number of errors, are these errors anything to worry about.

I paste the output below (for some reason a smiley has appeared, 4th line):

andrew@andrew-Dell-DM061:~$ muon-discover
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Bus:pen: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
qrc:/qml/FeaturedModel.qml:24: SyntaxError: Unable to parse JSON string
andrew@andrew-Dell-DM061:~$ JSonScanner::yylex - error reading from io device
qrc:/qml/FeaturedModel.qml:24: SyntaxError: Unable to parse JSON string
Couldn't find the releasechecker script
/usr/bin/python3: can't find '__main__' module in ''
JSonScanner::yylex - error reading from io device

[Rog131]

Annoying but harmless ?

Those messages are, probably, like the

QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.

Annoying but harmless warning message on startup of every KUniqueApplication: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297020
and more: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=102251

You could do net searches with the warning/error messges...

[anon_private]

Thank you