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Erwin Iosef

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Registered: 2024-05-22

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[SOLVED]Plasma 6.1.4, Kinfocenter missing device viewer

I've been wondering about the device viewer in Kinfocenter that would show information about your harddrives, it used to be present in plasma 5, but I can't see it in the latest release as of yet, I'm not talking about "block devices" either. Did it get removed or something, if not how do I get it? Thanks.

Last edited by Erwin Iosef (2024-09-07 10:16:28)

Erwin Iosef

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Re: [SOLVED]Plasma 6.1.4, Kinfocenter missing device viewer

Never mind, it's been removed since 6.1, marking as solved.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Plasma 6.1.4, Kinfocenter missing device viewer

Still present here... Is plasma-disks installed?

Erwin Iosef

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Re: [SOLVED]Plasma 6.1.4, Kinfocenter missing device viewer

Yes but I liked the more neater display of device viewer. This just gives all the info in plaintext form in the SMART category. Which really doesn't suit when you're looking for info on your device model name and such. You wouldn't go intuitively looking for that under SMART data.

As for the commit that removed it,
here you go.

Erwin Iosef

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Re: [SOLVED]Plasma 6.1.4, Kinfocenter missing device viewer

Hopefully, in future releases it'll get more polishing, and become more of a proper successor to Device Viewer, maybe under a different name like "Disks information/Storage information", in line with the "plasma-disks" name.