Switching to new system monitor app

[david-cortes]

The ksysguard app that this widget uses has been deprecated. Would be helpful to move to the new system activity app so that it would launch something similar to Ctrl+Esc when clicking the widget.

[orblazer]

Hello, you have an source of that deprecation ?

[david-cortes]

If you go to the bugzilla page (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi), you'll notice that it says "ksysguard: | System monitoring tool [up to Plasma 5.21]" while the new one says "plasma-systemmonitor: | Plasma's system monitoring tool [Plasma 5.21+]". If you read the blog posts from KDE team members they have also mentioned multiple times that they want to replace ksysguard, and it's for example no longer being packaged in the latest KDE updates in debian.

[orblazer]

Ok, But for make that change i need to find how i can detect what plasma version is run (for retro compatibility).

And for that i don't know how i can to that..

[david-cortes]

One way to do it is this:

plasmashell --version

Outputs:

plasmashell 5.23.0

Another way would be to first try to launch plasma-systemmonitor, and if that fails, switch to ksysguard.

By the way, I think also the libraries used for getting the usage statics were replaced with new ones, not just the app that opens when clicking it.

[orblazer]

Yes i know how to get plasma version, but i just don't know how i can have this information in QML for that line :

plasma-applet-resources-monitor/package/contents/ui/main.qml

Line 357 in 50d0023

kRun.openService("org.kde.ksysguard")

[thecmdrunner]

System managers from other DEs come to mind, but installing them just for one applet will be impractical.

Maybe look over at the BTop and their implementation?