facebook widget don't work - missing packages

[u2ix]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-facebook

I tried to use the facebook widget in Kde 4.4 (backports). After adding it to the desktop It displays an error message:
"The package facebook (necessary for facebook) could not be opened."
This happened after adding kubuntu backports.

Ubuntu Release: 9.10
Package Version (plasma-widget-facebook): 1.0-0ubuntu1

[blacklocist (blacklocist)]

Having same problem here!

[Ofir Klinger (klinger-ofir)]

I can confirm this bug.

Is there some solution?

[Harry Ranquist (harryranquist)]

What package am I missing?

[Iskendar (alexander-borghgraef)]

I can confirm this too.

[Søren Holm (sgh)]

I have the same issue here on Lucid

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

As far as I can tell this is an upstream but, plasma no longer looks in the global directory for python plasmoids.

plasma-desktop(1363)/libplasma Plasma::Package::isValid: Could not find required file mainscript , look in "/home/jr/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/facebook/contents/code/main"

Well of course it isn't in ~/.kde it's in /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/facebook

[Brian Thomason (brian-thomason)]

This also effects plasma-widget-googlecalendar and any other package that uses a scriptengine.

plasma/applet.cpp in kde4libs does a KStandardDirs::locate for the dir containing the widget. Unfortunately, something is creating empy dirs in ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/$appname. Given the search order for KStandardDirs::locate, it happily returns this empty dir first.

I have added a tiny patch which solves the problem.

I'm not sure why this worked in karmic; either the search order for KStandardDirs::locate was different, or it was using a different search order.

[Brian Thomason (brian-thomason)]

>I'm not sure why this worked in karmic; either the search order for KStandardDirs::locate was different, or it was using a different >search order.

I'm not sure why this worked in karmic; either the search order for KStandardDirs::locate was different, or the empty dirs weren't being created in karmic.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Lovely. Committed to packaging bzr and upstream's svn.