Update for Plasma6

[alexankitty]

Update the code base once Plasma6 is out, or more or less finalized.

[alexankitty]

When the update for plasma6 comes out, the existing 5 compatible version will be moved to its own branch.

[alexankitty]

Release date is expected to be February 2024. Once I have a release candidate to work from I'll start updating the existing code base for it.

[alexankitty]

KF6 Porting
https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/widget/porting_kf6/

[theS1LV3R]

Any updates? Plasma 6 is now out, and is starting to hit distros as well (e.g. Arch earlier today)

[alexankitty]

Hold off on updating if you want to use it.
I'm a little burnt out on programming at the moment since I do a ton of it for my day job as well and still need to finish the indicator and color rewrites that way 5 doesn't get left behind for the LTS people.
It'll be a bit before this is done as I've not even started.

[alexankitty]

Figured I'd provide an update on where we're at towards preparations for plasma6.
The button overhaul is completed and working, you can checkout the Color-Overhaul branch and install it should you want to see where it's at. Things can and will break at any given time.
I'm probably somewhere between 30-50% done with everything else that needs to be completed.
Currently working on the indicator overhaul which should alleviate a ton of the existing issues with them, and also make the codebase a lot more maintainable.
Once that's done, the preset system needs to be built, and then that should be everything that's needed to move it into a plasma5 fork of the repository. From there, only major breaking changes will be worked on.

For the porting, since this is based on the upstream task manager Eike made, in addition to actually porting the plasmoid to run on 6, any features that have seen been added to the task manager will also need to be backported and integrated with some of the fixes and feature adds FancyTasks does.

I don't have an exact timeline for completion here, but I'm hoping by the end of the week we can look towards porting.

Sorry about how long this has taken to get done, I got stuck in a code maintainability nightmare that I finally got figured out over the weekend.

[alexankitty]

Sneak peak of the new indicator screen

[IF-Adin]

Thank you so much for all your hard work porting this to Plasma6 ❤️

[GordonZed]

Sneak peak of the new indicator screen

You're a gangster. Really appreciate this widget making the task manager usable, but having experienced burnout myself in the last year: please for the love of God, take all the time you need.

Thanks for keeping this project up and running though. Will patiently await updates. Would love to contribute myself one day when I have the time and energy.

[luisbocanegra]

So I tried to port main branch to plasma 6 by merging with upstream...

And after 20+ merge conflicts it's working! Well... kinda working, there are some things broken and others I haven't tested.

I pushed the code here if someone wants to try it out.

Will try to take a look at Color-Overhaul branch and see if I can help with that in the upcoming weeks.

[alexankitty]

I'm still not ready to port this until I finish the 5.0 rewrite and changes. Been struggling with burnout though so it might be a bit. It's good to know though that getting it functional won't be too much of a hassle.

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[rqn17]

I DO LOVE FancyTasks.
Thanks to @alexankitty for this great widget!
But since I upgraded KDE to plasma6, I can't use it anymore...
Congratulations to @luisbocanegra for trying to port to Plasma6. I wanted to test this version. I downloaded the package and ran ./install.sh.
I ran into this issue :
kf.package: Invalid metadata for package structure “Plasma/Applet” Package type “Plasma/Applet” not found
I can't place the widget in a panel: I get a message explaining that “This widget was written for an unknow older version...”.
I'm not a developer (unfortunately). Can you explain to me how to install?

[IF-Adin]

@rqn17

"Version": "4.0", "Website": "https://github.com/alexankitty/FancyTasks" }, "X-Plasma-API-Minimum-Version": "6.0", "KPackageStructure": "Plasma/Applet", "X-Plasma-API": "declarativeappletscript", "X-Plasma-MainScript": "ui/main.qml", "X-Plasma-Provides": [ "org.kde.plasma.multitasking" ] }

I changed the metadata.json as such and not it allows me to add the plasmoid, but now it throws the error:

/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/alexankitty.fancytasks/contents/ui/main.qml:379:5: TaskManagerApplet.DragHelper is not a type

[luisbocanegra]

The changes are in the plasma6 branch, you need to clone or switch to that branch first, git clone https://github.com/luisbocanegra/FancyTasks -b plasma6 && cd FancyTasks && kpackagetool6 -t Plasma/Applet -u package

[IF-Adin]

@luisbocanegra Thank you for the help. Unfortunately, this error message remains:

alexankitty.fancytasks/contents/ui/main.qml:379:5: TaskManagerApplet.DragHelper is not a type

[luisbocanegra]

@IF-Adin you're still using the plasma 5 main (the main branch) that line in your error does not exist in the plasma6 code

[IF-Adin]

@luisbocanegra Nevermind a restart fixed it!

[rqn17]

@luisbocanegra: great, it works!
The size of the icons is a little small compared to the height of the panel. How can we fix it ?