Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘

@kalpa hello. continuing to enjoy your nice :linuxopensuse: #Kalpa project, ta.

wrt my pic, is it possible, pls, to expose the variable that describes your system version, to the standard Plasma system-info widget?

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a Kalpa virtual desktop, in a QEMU VM, with three Plasma desktop widgets applied. the top one is a text listing of various system specs. one row has a blank instead of the actual "Operating System Version", whereas to the rhs of said widgets is the open "About This System" app, showing the current version is in fact "20260420".

Apr 23 at 4:04amWeb
Show threadKalpa DesktopApr 25
@msdropbear42 there is, there is just a little manual faffery that you have to do. When I’m not at a conference and sitting in a brewpub typing on a phone, I’ll tell you how
Show threadKalpa DesktopApr 25
@msdropbear42 `sudo transactional-update pkg in Kalpa-release patterns-kalpa-base` Then you'll need to select option 1 to the questions, to uninstall/replace the MicroOS equivalents.
Show threadDroppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘Apr 26

@kalpa thanks Shawn. that wall of konsole text was quite intimidating, but i just kept picking option 1 for the three questions / problems as you suggested, & it went well

so the good news is i love that now the boot menu finally identifies the system as #kalpa instead of the upstream base, pic 1

but the bad news is, unfortunately... the desktop widget still does not show the kalpa version, pic 2

my objective, hope, was that purely from the widget alone, not needing me to launch the plasma info centre, i'd be able to see at a glance what version i'm running. yes, i agree, this is very far from being any kind of serious problem, just a little functional tweak i would have enjoyed

thank you

Show threadKalpa DesktopApr 26
@msdropbear42 I’ve actually never used that desktop widget before, I’d need to have a look at where it’s trying to pull that information from, was it giving you a version there when the MicroOS branding was still there?
Show threadDroppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘Apr 26

@kalpa no, like in the marked up pic in my OP, even before running your "magic command", that field in the widget was blank... not a wrong value, just no value. same story after your command.

to be clear though, i very much do appreciate you giving me that command, coz of the nice other benefits it has provided.

Show threadKalpa DesktopApr 27
@msdropbear42 what’s the name of that desktop widget, I’m just curious where they’re trying g to pull that version info from
Show threadDroppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘Apr 27
@kalpa it's System Monitor Sensor
Show threadKalpa DesktopApr 27

@msdropbear42 I don't entirely understand why, but openSUSE comments out the VERSION field in /etc/os-release, that's why it doesn't get populated in your widget.

I'll have to look and see if I can fix that. I'd guess that's going to happen on any openSUSE based system, other than *maybe* Aeon?

Show threadDroppieApr 28
@kalpa @[email protected] just making this mock reply, to bring this thread into my alternative fedi account, so i can continue to follow it here.

#kalpa #dropbearpooterising