KDE: How to add "Uninstall" option to the right-click menu of pkgs in Application Menu?

MattMadness · 12-12-2021, 03:59 PM

How can I add a "Uninstall" option to the right-click menu of an application in the Plasma Application Launcher? Like what Linux Mint Cinnamon has and Windows 10 has.

Thanks for your help!

Edit: specifically for Arch Linux, but I don't mind if it might use PackageKit.

Brains · 12-12-2021, 10:41 PM

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Plasma Application Launcher?

Plasma's default GUI application manager is Discover. The icon is a blue bag with KDE logo.

When I open Discover and select "Installed" at bottom left, a list of all installed applications is produced and every one has a big "Remove" button. In my part of the world, remove is the same as "Uninstall", no need to right click.

If you are using a different Application manager, please specify which one, typically applications have a "Help" section in menu that will tell the tale.

enigma9o7 · 12-12-2021, 11:19 PM

Right click on some things in start menu have "uninstall or manage add-ons" too....

MattMadness · 12-13-2021, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Brains

Plasma's default GUI application manager is Discover. The icon is a blue bag with KDE logo.

When I open Discover and select "Installed" at bottom left, a list of all installed applications is produced and every one has a big "Remove" button. In my part of the world, remove is the same as "Uninstall", no need to right click.

If you are using a different Application manager, please specify which one, typically applications have a "Help" section in menu that will tell the tale.

What I mean is the Application Launcher in the panel, like in the attached image.

enigma9o7 · 12-13-2021, 01:03 PM

Some items have it, some don't. I dunno why.

MattMadness · 12-13-2021, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by enigma9o7

Some items have it, some don't. I dunno why.

That looks like Manjaro's pamac! Perhaps we could figure out how they do it, or use pamac.

Brains · 12-14-2021, 12:00 AM

Perhaps you can find how in the Menu editor

Plasma can be installed in many ways, mostly meta-packages that include certain common apps. To uninstall an application that was installed as part of a meta-package typically involves uninstalling the entire meta-package. This will explain why some can have a right click uninstall and some don't.

When I installed Plasma in Gentoo I chose a small meta-package that excluded dolphin, kate, konsole, some browser I didn't care for and a bunch of other apps that depended on the webengine package that takes about an hour and 12GB of space to compile in Gentoo. I installed Dolphin, kate, konsole, Gwenview Spectacle and a bunch others that I use as single separate applications rather than the meta-package they are a part of. As such I can right click on any of them and the option to uninstall is available, not the ones part of a meta-package. Same with LibreOffice which is not part of any meta-package.