Hi pals! When writing this post out I realized the answer is probably "it's not ready yet" but hey, can't hurt to ask. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get KDE Plasma Big Screen on Bazzite? I'm not sure it's it's in usable shape but I would really like to try it. It's in weird territory - I saw reports it would be added natively to KDE Plasma 6.7 but I can't find it on my desktop running Fedora 44 w/ KDE Plasma 6.7.5.

Going through this page on the Bazzite docs:

1. It's not in the Bazzite Portal
2. Not in the Bazaar Store (I don't believe there is a flatpak version)
3. Homebrew doesn't seem to be applicable
4. Containers seem like they wouldn't be quite right since it'll have a lot of KDE dependencies.
5. I don't believe there's an AppImage of it.
6. rpm-ostree isn't recommended, last resort, etc.

It may just be too early for this but I figured I'd ask - don't be afraid to just say it's too much of an ask right now 😅

EDIT:

At least for the short term, rpm-ostree has worked! I ran the command:

rpm-ostree install plasma-bigscreen

The package took a few moments to install but so far it's working well - I was able to open KDE Plasma Bigscreen, open Emby, watch a video, and then exit Emby without having to use a mouse.

Whether or not I'll have issues updating things in the future, which is noted as a possible outcome of using rpm-ostree here, who knows!

It’s in the Fedora repos. As far as I can tell, it’s a separate DE, kinda like Plasma Mobile. I would imagine that it would be possible to layer it in using RPM ostree but I don’t know for sure.

rpm-ostree plasma-bigscreen

AFAIK forking Bazzite and adding that package should be fairly simple. Like editing a few YAML files type of thing. Could be wrong tho.

rpm-ostree isn't recommended, last resort, etc.

Yeah, no

Ostree is made for exactly that: taking a base and modifying it.

Its a technically separate DR, but it still needs the whole plasma envoirment

Fair, I was just going off of the official Bazzite docs which specifically say "not recommended, use as a last resort" and "Layering packages irresponsibly can be destructive and may prevent updates as well as other issues until the layered packages are removed."

Well, I appreciate the reminder that I can't trust KDE Discover to list packages in the Fedora repos 😂 sadly necessary in this case!

Updated my initial post but I ran rpm-ostree install plasma-bigscreen and it worked! Will be keeping an eye on things next few times I update to see if it causes any issues.

Yes, those are indeed problems you can face that are solved with something like flatpak

However, as long as you aren't installing random packages which are not made to work with fedora and its update cycle (plasma big screen is in its official repos) you probably won't have any problem

Interesting! I hadn't heard of this before so it's cool to see you got it running.