Erwan David - 08.01.23, 12:58:56 CET: > > Apper is somewhat similar to Discover, but I am not sure whether it > > is even maintained by upstream anymore. > > However it is apper which used to display in systray when upgrades or > security upgrades were available.
Hmmm, I thought I would still be getting update notifications even without apper. At least I still have an "Updates" entry in systray configuration. Need to check whether those update available messages still popup. I do not care much about those, as I use apt on command line often enough to upgrade the machine and there is something new daily in unstable anyway. At least when I click the "Updates" icon it opens Discover. But right now nothing to update here, so… no idea whether it pops up by itself currently. But I thought it was. For what it is worth, both Apper and Discover depend on Packagekit which AFAIK does the heavy lifting underneath. I thought Discover could fully replace Apper. And when I look at the git commit history of Apper, I get the impression it is not really maintained anymore since at least 2019 or even longer: https://invent.kde.org/system/apper/-/commits/master Except for some build failure and crash bug fixes. Anyway, if Plasmashell currently crashes with it, I will not have it on my system. Simple as that. Best, -- Martin
