Comic plasmoid missin

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Hi,

I just upgraded from OpenSuSE 13.1 to Leap 42.1. All seems to be working fine, but I have just this one little annoyance. That is, I can’t get the comic plasmoid working. It used to work fine in 13.1, but now when I add it to the desktop it only displays a big red cross with the text: “Error loading Applet: package inexistent.”

I do have the package plasma5-addons installed, which in turn includes the file /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/plasma/applets/plasma_applet_comic.so

So far as I’m concerned it should be there.

Any ideas on how to get my daily comics back?

Kind regards,
Louis

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Works fine here.

How exactly are you trying to add it to the desktop?
Try dragging it out of the widget explorer and dropping it on the desktop.

I think there was a bug that made double-clicking not work under certain circumstances.

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Hi,

Thanks, guess that bug is still in there. Dragging and dropping did the trick.

Kind regards,
Louis

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It has been noticed and fixed only a few days ago:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359902

The fix is included in the plasma-framework package in the KDE:Frameworks5 repo, but it hasn’t been released as update for Leap 42.1 yet.

PS: I just noticed that that fix will also be part of the upcoming Plasma 5.5.5 update for Leap 42.1, which should get released in a week or so.

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Ah well, I guess it would have been fixed then automatically anyhow. But I’m just glad that I didn’t have to wait another week or so.

Kind regards,
Louis