I've read lots of articles about the new "social desktop" that arrived with KDE 4.3.1. Even the KDE homepage says that there are "New Plasmoids: Bubble Monitor ... openDesktop (Social Desktop Plasmoid)" (see: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-beta1.php )
I'm running 4.3.1 and I've tried everything to find this openDesktop plasmoid, but can't find it. Is my system not working correctly? Has KDE not released this plasmoid (afterall)?

Which distro? You probably have to install a package to get the extra plasmoids.

Hans wrote:Which distro? You probably have to install a package to get the extra plasmoids.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"

Which package contains the "social desktop"?

You need the package "kdeplasma-addons", from the repo that has KDE 4.3 (Jaunty includes 4.2).

I don't use Ubuntu myself but try kdeplasma-addons.

tjk wrote:

Hans wrote:Which distro? You probably have to install a package to get the extra plasmoids.

Which package contains the "social desktop"?

It should be in plasma-widgets-addons

sebas wrote:You need the package "kdeplasma-addons", from the repo that has KDE 4.3 (Jaunty includes 4.2).

I tried finding a backport for KDE 4.3. Can someone help me? OR Will the "social desktop" work if I upgrade to 9.10?

Blizzz wrote:It should be in plasma-widgets-addons

I have both plasma-widgets-addons and kdeplasma-addons installed and still nothing.

After installing the new widgets, you might need to run "kbuildsycoca4" to make the widget known. Also, what does the following command tell you?

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plasmoidviewer --list 2>&1|g opend

sebas wrote:After installing the new widgets, you might need to run "kbuildsycoca4" to make the widget known. Also, what does the following command tell you?

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plasmoidviewer --list 2>&1|g opend

The above command results in:
bash: g: command not found

BTW, I now have the openDesktop plasmoid in my "add widgets" options. However, when I add it I immediately get a blank screen (with two small icon-sized windows with a tray item in each one). There is no way to get out of this screen except for ctrl-alt-backspace.

Sounds like Plasma crashed. You can run it by pressing Alt+F2 and type "plasma-desktop".
It's already been reported: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202520

Hans wrote:Sounds like Plasma crashed. You can run it by pressing Alt+F2 and type "plasma-desktop".
It's already been reported: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202520

It's not the same bug... I get:
Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma-desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection

According to Aaron Seigo, that message isn't fatal: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205354

I can't reproduce the crash here. It would be helpful if you could post the backtrace (with debug symbols installed). Also, can you reproduce the crash with a new user?

Hans wrote:According to Aaron Seigo, that message isn't fatal: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205354
I can't reproduce the crash here. It would be helpful if you could post the backtrace (with debug symbols installed). Also, can you reproduce the crash with a new user?

Well this is interesting!!! All plasma features seem to be working when I logon as a different user!
So... I need to either fix the DBUS problem or transfer all my setting and preferences from one user to another (easily )? Suggestions?

You may wish to try removing your Plasma configuration, removing the KDE cache's, rebuilding the Sycoca before you start to migrate data and settings to a new user.

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killall -9 plasma-desktop
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/plasma/
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasm*

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rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/cache-*/*
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/tmp-*/*

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental