Actually that’s incorrect (incomplete), the issue is that the shutdown choice screen doesn’t appear, resulting in nothing happening on any widget that I’ve tried (even stock). The workaround (which I think you might have posted) is that you can turn show shutdown screen off in desktop settings and all work fine.
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@dbarronoss thanks for providing the screenshot and info for https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480721
I hope this helps the KDE-people to triage this bug.
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It sounds weird to me (like an uninitialized variable/loop going one step too far)…but yes I did my best to provide what I noticed.
Hah and now my dolphin is in 2nd and 4th position and not moving closer together…yes weird.
Indeed. Dolphins all over the place…
And Turtles all the way down.
As to widgets apparently not being ported to Plasma6/QT6, I am wondering: could it be that most developers focus on non-rolling distributions, like Kubuntu?
And as Kubuntu decided to stick to plasma 5 for the time being[1], widget Devs are not in a hurry.
[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/kubuntu-24-04-wont-use-kde-plasma-6
Well since that call to widget authors went out, the number has doubled (to about 12 widgets), but you’re probably on to something (Neon being the test bed, and Ubuntu-based).
Yeah but Neon is the distro where Plasma is updated the quickest. Generally faster than on Arch.
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Disclaimer:
I have no specific knowledge, this is just my general understanding from brief past research.
I don’t think it has much to do with (K)Ubuntu, and more to do with the KDE extension ecosystem.
My understanding is that the KDE extensions ecosystem is way less mature, structured and popular than say Gnome’s.
For example, I don’t think there is even any serious effort for security auditing/reviewing of the extensions codebase.
That’s not necessarily to say that Plasma is bad because of that, I’d argue its better because it offers saner defaults therefore not presenting a strong need for extensions as much as Gnome needs them for “trivial” things (eg status notifier, or clipboard management).
I’m not sure how accurate that assessment would be, but to me (and please do correct me if I’m wrong), there seem to be a huge amount of KDE extensions that are more “weekend pet-projects” rather than serious actively maintained software (with exceptions of course), so the interest in keeping them up-to-date for a new release might simply not be there from the developers’ standpoint.
Thanks for the info. Good to know.
I wasn’t using Linux when Plasma was going from 3 to 4 but 4 to 5 yes. At that time, both version was on the repos with two meta package: kde-meta for plasma 4 and plasma-meta for plasma 5.
Maybe a bit too optimistic on that take. But since they already append most Plasma package with “5” and that Plasma 6 is in unstable for almost 4 months (yeah lots of change since but still). I can see Plasma 6 be release pretty fast.
We will see 
Thanks, @joekamprad - I’m unsure what I’m looking at here. Is this apropos kdesu?
I think I see now what this means: several apps are being added to the build, among which kdesu. 
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There you see they removed to add it to bin $PATH… To not be able anymore to run directly… so the BUG is not a BUG it was done by intent.
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The plasma 6 release is nigh. It may or may not land in arch and eos shortly after that. We have to wait and see.
I propose to mark this topic as resolved once plasma 6 is released by KDE.
I started this topic to learn how to setup my system to get testing. I was new to EOS at the time. And new to the community.
Not only did you lot help me to get going, but some of you got involved and shared your experiences here.
Along the way I learned a lot about how QT, KDE, Arch and EndeavorOS are related. I learned how lots of invisible people work together to make the software that i use daily. I got to know this kindly community as a thoroughly enjoyable bunch, with lots of knowledge and experience, and a helpful attitude.
It was a pleasure to get to know the community in this way. Once plasma 7 is on the horizon I’ll start another topic. 
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Thanks to everone, it was a pleasure. 
There was a lot of activity by the Arch KDE maintainer when the final private tars came out a few days ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a very quick release this time. 
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Plasma 6 is moving to Testing Wednesday. Very exciting.
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Well it was fun, see you folks on the plasma 7 testing.
Nuking this one in 3…2…1
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