Implementing a panel in Plasma 5.8 needs a layout to accompany it?

[Michail Vourlakos]

A small update for this for Plasma 5.8,

removing "NoDisplay=true" from metadata.desktop is not an option for 
me... The panel is appearing in the widgets list but there is the 
following not acceptable behavior.

If the user tries to add the Now Dock Panel from the widgets list then 
the panel is trying to be added in the desktop containment and that 
creates a plasma crash that can not be fixed if the user dont edit its 
plasma configuration files (so the user can not login to plasma at all 
after that).

That creates the following situation:

Now Dock Panel will be installed only through user manual installation 
and not from the 1-click install of store.kde.org which is disappointing 
actually. This is happening because I have to add a default and an empty 
layouts for the Now Dock Panel and these can not be installed from the 
same plasmoid package and correct me if I am wrong but layouts also can 
not be installed at all from 1-click install of store.kde.org


regards,

michail


On 27/09/2016 07:22 μμ, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2016, Michail Vourlakos wrote:
>> Can you please confirm me the following?
>>
>> 1. NoDisplay=true , in the metadata.desktop, tells to the panel to not
>> appear in the widgets explorer, but this is a panel so I think it
>> shouldnt if the user can not add it from there, right?
> well, that thing makes sense by itself, not just by containing plasmoids no?
> so i think it makes perfectly sense for it to appear in the widget explorer
>

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