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Plasma Panel Colorizer (Customization for the KDE Plasma panels)

dbi10hm1

Hello!

This a question for those who use KDE. Did you know about Plasma Panel Colorizer? It is a Latte-Dock and WM status bar customization for the KDE Plasma panels (see link above).

I would like to make a request for it to be included in the Solus Repositories.

edit: But before I make that request I would like to know if you would be interested to see it there.

alfisya

This is not correct the way of requesting a new package. Please read this. Thanks.

dbi10hm1

alfisya Apologies! I expressed myself in a wrong way. I'm not requesting the package yet. At the moment I'm trying to gauge interrest for it by asking if users would like to have it available in the repositories.

SethStorm666

I'm using it already. You can download it via Plasma own channel without using the repositories.

dbi10hm1

SethStorm666 I'm using it too. I installed it manually as per the instructions on the GitHub page.

edit: However I think it would be easier to install and update if it would be available in the repositories.

AlphaElwedritsch

Nevertheless, making a request this way remains the wrong approach and the fact that some community members would support it in the survey does not automatically make it better or faster. 😉

dbi10hm1

AlphaElwedritsch Again, this is not a package addition request. I edited the initial post, I hope it is clear now.

TraceyC

Speaking as a Solus team member, and KDE contributor:

Since this widget is already provided by the "Get New" mechanism in the Widgets UI, that's the way it should be installed. It would be inadvisable for us to package it, and stretch our package maintainers even thinner.

It is not recommended that people install this from the GitHub repo, KDE New Stuff (a.k.a. Get New) is the supported way of installing widgets that are available through it.

dbi10hm1

TraceyC Well there are a couple of things against using the "Get New" Mechanism: one is that it is not always safe and the other one is that it does not work for me. I rather install a package manually from the source (where I can see more information about the developer) or from the distribution repositories. It feels safer this way.

The reason I created this poll was with the maintainer's interest in mind. I wanted to gauge interest in using this program, if there would be none then I would not make a package request.

Just for the record though this package can be added to a distribution's repositories. I see that it is in the Arch and the NixOs repositories. I wouldn't have asked otherwise.

dbi10hm1

Anyways I can sense the aura against having this packaged. Feel free to delete this post. I will not be asking again things like this in the future.

SethStorm666

dbi10hm1

Don't take it to hard. It's just the devs wants the users to use the proper channel for requests 🙂

Axios

dbi10hm1 We welcome all kinds of discussions around here on Linux.
Dont feel like your ignored or put on the spot in the end its the Dev's that make the
call on stuff.
Watching them for a long time their workflow is very important to them I can understand why.
Throwing something in that could cause issues is prob not the smart thing to do.
This is what makes things better having discussions about it and understanding whats best for the
Solus users as a whole. (And we have a whole host of users that voice their opinions)

If things that are important mentioned and posted here they are lost making a package request they can be followed up on.

This is a general statement and not geared towards this thread.
I see your fairly new User Welcome to Solus

Original-Syn

dbi10hm1 That is not really it. The team has a specific way to request packages. This makes it easier for them to be efficient and track everything. It also allows them to have all the required data, as they have all the instructions laid out.

Here is the official guide to requesting a package...
https://help.getsol.us/docs/packaging/procedures/request-a-package/

dbi10hm1

Axios It's alright. Thank you for being honest and impartial!

Axios

dbi10hm1 Just a Solus user like you.

dbi10hm1

Original-Syn What!? Do you people not read what I write? Does my text not show?

This post is a POLL. It is tagged as such. It has a question, there are two simple ways to answer it. It asks if people would use this package if it would be available to them. The point is to see what everyone thinks about this extension, to increase awareness about it and maybe share information about other options (if there are any).

This post is NOT a package request! I edited the initial post to reflect that and I said so a few times.