NixOS
Plasma 6 Digital Clock widget is missing KDE-PIM calendar integration
Describe the bug
The Digital Clock widget in the plasma status bar shows a calendar when clicked, but the option to show calendars from the KDE PIM suite is missing.
Steps To Reproduce
services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;
programs.kde-pim = {
enable = true;
kmail = true;
kontact = true;
merkuro = true;
};
Expected behavior
If programs.kde-pim.enable = true;, the KDE PIM event source should be listed in available plugins for the calendar of the Digital Clock widget. Or at the very least if Merkuro is also enabled via the corresponding module option.
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[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
fetching path input 'path:/nix/store/hiasfhl8f5yy88hcfbr3s8s4bm63wsjw-source'
- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
- host os: `Linux 6.11.0, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20240919.c04d565`
- multi-user?: `yes`
- sandbox: `yes`
- version: `nix-env (Lix, like Nix) 2.91.0
System type: x86_64-linux
Additional system types: i686-linux, x86_64-v1-linux, x86_64-v2-linux, x86_64-v3-linux
Features: gc, signed-caches
System configuration file: /etc/nix/nix.conf
User configuration files: /home/user/.config/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/1c1580lym6lyjyrc8hidmdrp21zzxwp8-plasma-workspace-6.1.5/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/rfr8ffp1nkli4nlhy2a8pxcqn02gbly8-kglobalacceld-6.1.5/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/w33p3hrwxdj129sjbzbbqlc7x9f75xsh-baloo-6.6.0/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/home/user/.config/kdedefaults/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/1c1580lym6lyjyrc8hidmdrp21zzxwp8-plasma-workspace-6.1.5/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/rfr8ffp1nkli4nlhy2a8pxcqn02gbly8-kglobalacceld-6.1.5/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/w33p3hrwxdj129sjbzbbqlc7x9f75xsh-baloo-6.6.0/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/1c1580lym6lyjyrc8hidmdrp21zzxwp8-plasma-workspace-6.1.5/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/rfr8ffp1nkli4nlhy2a8pxcqn02gbly8-kglobalacceld-6.1.5/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/store/w33p3hrwxdj129sjbzbbqlc7x9f75xsh-baloo-6.6.0/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/home/user/.config/kdedefaults/nix/nix.conf:/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/home/user/.nix-profile/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/profile/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/home/user/.local/state/nix/profile/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/etc/profiles/per-user/user/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf:/run/current-system/sw/etc/xdg/nix/nix.conf
Store directory: /nix/store
State directory: /nix/var/nix
Data directory: /nix/store/15q4w2423rnnxxqfbl0mrsjgbpikziik-lix-2.91.0/share`
- nixpkgs: `/nix/store/hiasfhl8f5yy88hcfbr3s8s4bm63wsjw-source`
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It's part of kdepim-addons, which is, confusingly, a separate package, and pulls in most of Plasma, which is why it's not enabled by default.
A considerable amount, it's a grab bag of random nonsense that doesn't fit into any other package, so it has plugins for a bunch of other things too.
Hmm yea, looks like a bit of a mess... For a lack of easier options, maybe it would make indeed sense to have a programs.kde-pim.addons and have it default to true iff the plasma6 module is enabled? Then it would work as expected with Plasma and not clutter Not Plasma unnecessarily.
If we do that, we should just set kde-pim.addons.enable in the Plasma module, as we already do for kde-pim.enable. It's better than cursed contextual defaults.
Oh, I'd missed that part somehow. Yeah that would make sense then. Although I assume that would then always unconditionally pull in all 3 applications from the kde-pim module?
It doesn't have to, technically? We could just have them in the store and not expose them in the user environment. ~~Or we could chop up the addons package~~
I guess splitting up the package is the actual sensible choice. I'll have a look at how bad that could possibly be when I find the time. Could be nice to just bundle the extensions directly with their respective applications where that doesn't introduce new dependencies.
Already installed, but I don't see the option in Digital Clock nor see any event in Digital Clock calendar.
I tried from command line, but it seems it was already installed.
Using Kubuntu 24.10
Uhh, excuse me? Why are you reporting issues from Kubuntu on a NixOS bug tracker?
I am facing a similar issue, I have kdepim-addons, but no events show up from either the astronomical event and the pim plugin.
I am happy to open a separate issue if necessary
I'm seeing holidays and astronomical events but calendar events don't show up even if I enable the plugin and select one or more calendars. Possibly related journal output:
akonadiserver[3875]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7f44a02b0e40) )
akonadiserver[3875]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7f44a02b0e40) identified as "plasmashell-1562817475 - 643336752"
akonadiserver[3875]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Error while handling command FetchCollections on connection plasmashell-1562817475 (0xfd8f400)
On my system, running 25.11 I have akonadictl 6.4.3 (25.04.3) These are the relevant logs will flood the journal whenever I select the holiday, astronomical and pim events
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.pim.akonadicore: payload data was: "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00%\x8C\xEA\x04\xD4HH\x01\x00\x00\x00\xC4\x00G\x00""a\x00m\x00""e\x00s\x00""c\x00o\x00m\x00 \x00S\x00""c\x00r\x00""a\x00t>
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Unable to deserialize payload part: "ENVELOPE" in item 32589 collection 44
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.pim.akonadicore: payload data was: "Delivered-To: [my-email-addres]\nReceived: by 2002:a05:6f02:626:b0:8b:3a85:b7f with SMTP id 38csp1715034rce;\n Mon, 18 Aug 2025>
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Unable to deserialize payload part: "HEAD" in item 32589 collection 44
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos akonadiserver[5261]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Error while handling command FetchCollections on connection plasmashell-2818422154 (0x194c3d90)
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.plasma.workspace.calendar: "The shared library was not found."
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.plasma.workspace.calendar: Could not create Plasma Calendar Plugin: "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/plasmacalendarplugins/holidaysevents.so"
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.plasma.workspace.calendar: "The shared library was not found."
Aug 20 10:51:46 Talos plasmashell[4380]: org.kde.plasma.workspace.calendar: Could not create Plasma Calendar Plugin: "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/plasmacalendarplugins/astronomicalevents.so"
Thanks for looking into this!
I just updated the latest 25.11, and I can confirm this happens with akonadictl 6.5.0 and 25.08.0, should I get akonadictl 6.4.4?
Ok then yes, I have plasma 6.4.4 on nixos-unstable (updated my flake just a few hours ago) and there are the same issues I reported
OK, can you post the contents of your ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc?
Here it is: plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc.txt I noticed that there are multiple files like this but with different ending in the filename (.mGtyeP, .QynpEU, etc.). Is that normal?