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In Plasma 6, multiple regression happened to the application dashboard, which is by far my favorite launcher. I did file bug reports and all that, but I would love to try to contribute by fixing some of the bugs. Where do I start and what are the required skills?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] RuneF@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I am pretty adept with python and have played around with C and C++

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Great! Then you should look for the dashboard's git repository, compile it and look through the codebase to try and understand it.

[–] RuneF@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is kind of where I am stuck - the repo only has a "metadata.json" file, nothing else.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I can't be sure, but think this is what you are looking for:
In: git@invent.kde.org:plasma/plasma-workspace.git Go to ->/plasma-workspace/applets/kicker/plugin/dashboardwindow.h

[–] RuneF@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just recently realised that all(well, most of) the plasma stuff was in the same package.
Got to this repo while looking for breeze sddm theme

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 6 months ago

Woah! Didn't use the Dashboard for 6 months and now I see it has totally changed.
I might start using it as an alternative.