Open michaldybczak opened 6 years ago
trmdi
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6 years ago It seems that this project has been inactive for a long time.
But I don't know what you mean by saying "There are no ways to install fresh plasma-applet-active-window-control. github version is old, AUR git version is thus also old..." ?
You can still clone the git version from KDE's git and build it, can't you? I'm doing that without any problem.
michaldybczak
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6 years ago https://phabricator.kde.org/source/plasma-active-window-control/
shows that there are commits, latest was in june 26th
Still, it's not clear what is the status of the project. If it's under KDE so it should either come with plasma desktop by default or be in normal plasma repos - clear and simple. Bugs should be possible to submit on bugtracker. And yet, no official up to date version anywhere aside coping it from Phabricator and installing via script which is also not ideal (no integration with system, no automatic updates, etc.).
People love what AWC can do and ask me how did I get this and I always tell them to get git version as it is the only one that really works but... it shows a symptoms of aging and without updates on github we're left cold with old code and issues. This is a mess.
trmdi
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6 years ago I found his email in this: https://github.com/kotelnik/plasma-applet-active-window-control/blob/master/package/metadata.desktop
Can you try mailing him ?
michaldybczak
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6 years ago But I don't know what you mean by saying "There are no ways to install fresh plasma-applet-active-window-control. github version is old, AUR git version is thus also old..." ? You can still clone the git version from KDE's git and build it, can't you? I'm doing that without any problem.
As said above, I can get it directly from phabricator but it's not well integrated with the system. Building things aside pacman/apt database is the last resort.
AUR git version uses git and since there is no update on github, it's obsolete. Manjaro/Arch version is from 2017 so it's also old. The same is with the package on kde store.
Can you try mailing him ?
Yeah, I will do that but first I will wait a little longer since posts here should land in his mail box anyway. If there will be no contact for longer time I'll try to reach someone from KDE developers to check what is status of the project and who should I contact with.
trmdi
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6 years ago For the package problem, you should contact the package maintainer. They probably are not the same, so they would update the package. Or you can create a new package yourself.
michaldybczak
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6 years ago As with all KDE things arojas is the one who takes care about packages and yes, I could look on PKGBUILD and update it, still, I want this package to be in good condition in overall, reliable and easy install for most Linux users.
EDIT: I was mistaken, AUR git version is up to date:
url="https://phabricator.kde.org/source/$_gitpkgname"
So that's out of the way, still now easy way to install it on ubuntus based distros with apt.
That also means, the bug I wanted to file is present in newest version as well. I hoped that this was only a case of obsolete code and with new one it will be gone.
trmdi
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6 years ago @michaldybczak Just curious, could you finally make contact with him?
michaldybczak
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6 years ago Unfortunately, I got no response here or on mail :(.
trmdi
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6 years ago I've just opened a new WISHLIST for adding AWC features to the official Global menu widget at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399308 Please vote for it.
michaldybczak
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6 years ago Done.
trmdi
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6 years ago Yeah, there is a new place and a new maintainer for it on KDE Bug Tracker.
I want to submit a bug but I got confused.
If plasma-applet-active-window-control is under kde I would expect it to be shipped with Plasma desktop by default, alas it isn't.
I have a issue with certain global menus (firefox and few electron ones) that are visible but not active (Manjaro). In case of firefox they can be make active after few weird actions. I tested it and the issue is not present on system global menu panel and is independent whether it's on system panel or latte panel. I can't install plasma-applet-active-window-control on Neon so I can't really test it there. I would like to open a new bug for this issue but got confused by the changes, lack of current version, unsure where to post. This is in short. I'm not submitting this bug here yet. In this topic I submit only those things:
plasma-applet-active-window-control is one of the crucial elements of my desktop setup and I love it and I would like to help by submitting bugs and forward people to the info how they can install working, up to date version.