Update Plasma 5.25 and Tiled Menu bricks plasmashell

[Zeratoxx]

Hi!
(I love this app! <3)
With Plasma 5.25 Wayland it freezes the plasmashell!!
I got it to work by:
alt+space for the launcher and start terminal,
killing the shell ($ killall plasmashell),
resetting my shell settings ($ rm ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc),
restart pc ($ shutdown -r 0)

The default menu works afaik.

I assume that there are some breaking changes by plasma.

[Zren]

Can you test with running plasmawindowed com.github.zren.tiledmenu in Konsole (Meta+T).

Have you tried reinstalling the widget in the panel to confirm that it's tiled menu that's crashing plasmashell?

The kicker API shouldn't have any Wayland specific changes... so this is weird. I'm also using this widget in X11 perfectly fine.

[Zeratoxx]

Sorry, I got your message but forgot to answer you until I remembered today xD

Can you test with running plasmawindowed com.github.zren.tiledmenu in Konsole (Meta+T).

This Works.

Have you tried reinstalling the widget in the panel to confirm that it's tiled menu that's crashing plasmashell?

No, I didn't.
What I did to identify Tiled Menu as the issue is to:

1. killall plasmashell;
2. remove one [Containment] (individual Containments seem to be numbered, so I remove every block with the same number) in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc;
3. kstart5 plasmashell;
4. if it freezes, start at 1. again.

When deleting Tiled Menu in the config, everything works fine.

It seems like the shell freezes on startup but the app seems to work fine by itself (plasmawindowed com.github.zren.tiledmenu).

[Zeratoxx]

Hey there,
I don't know, if you changed anything but it works now on my side. I reinstalled my KDE Neon and everything works fine.

[NumixAvali]

Hi! i'm getting similar issue, and possibly found root cause of this issue.

I inspected how tiles are stored in the shell settings, and decoded tileModel value via base64 -d. I got reasonable output, similar to JSON file. But upon changing tile layout, and decoding it again i got an error invalid input from base64.

So, it seems, that saving settings in my case is broken, and results in infinite loop, trying to load them without success.

[xurich-xulaco]

Hi, I want to report almost the same issue, happening on Plasma 5.25.5 x11. Yes, the shell also freezes up on x11 and another way to get around the brick is to manually uninstall this applet by the script provided on this same repo, then reboot and manually place another app menu launcher.