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

[Michail Vourlakos]

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?

2. my metadata.desktop was using NoDisplay=true in Plasma 5.7 but there 
was not a problem there. Without a layout specification the "Empty Now 
Dock Panel" was appearing correctly. So this is a change from 5.7 to 
5.8, right?

3. providing an accompanied layout is not a problem but unfortunately 
for the user to install it, I have not found an easy way to do so except 
the command line:
"plasmapkg2 -t layout-template -i".

3.1 Is there a way inside the panel package (.plasmoid) to add somewhere 
a layout, and that layout to be installed with the panel directly? (I 
mean by using plasmapkg2)

3.2 Installing layouts from store.kde.org is not possible, right? this 
is because plasmapkg2 can not identify them if the user does not provide 
the arguments "-t layout-template", am I right?


michail


> that may have sneaked in the beta, yes.
> 5.8 final release tough should allow that again
> tough pay attention the metadata desktop doesn't have NoDisplay=True
> that means the thing would appear in the widget explorer as well.
> if you really need for it to not appear in widget explorer, so have
> nodisaplay, then yes, you need a javascript layout template
>

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