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6rJ27GKfu

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Registered: 2020-06-17

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KDE Plasma 5.19 broke network speed widget!

After the update to KDE Plasma v5.19 the network speed widget looks completely different and doesn't display upload and download speeds anymore. Also when I add the network speed it shows as system monitor on the taskbar as you can see here:

It still looks fine on my Manjaro system using Plasma v5.18 as you can see here:

Last edited by 6rJ27GKfu (2020-06-17 13:06:02)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: KDE Plasma 5.19 broke network speed widget!

All of the monitoring widgets have been rewritten to use a common backend, which is derived from the "sensor" based logic like ksysguard has them. The "logical" conversion from the old widgets sometimes picks suboptimal default sensors, check the widget preferences and check whether you can pick a sensor that is more to your liking. If that isn't possible, they will likely be fleshed out in future releases, you might want to check if bug reports exist for the widgets and potentially open bug reports for these kind of regressions.

Last edited by V1del (2020-06-17 13:30:17)

fft2000

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Registered: 2020-04-08

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Re: KDE Plasma 5.19 broke network speed widget!

You might need to resize the widgets to get the missing values displayed. I had to even after adding new widgets, so there are still (quite) some rough edges with this rewrite.