# KDE

## Restart Plasma

### KDE Plasma 4

```
killall plasma-desktop && kstart plasma-desktop
```

### KDE Plasma 5

```
kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell
```

## Starting any KDE application generates a lot of messages

The following warning are seen:

```
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/filenamesearch.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/filenamesearch.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/videodvd.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/videodvd.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/sieve.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/sieve.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/pop3.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/pop3.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/ldap.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/ldap.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/nfs.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/nfs.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/settings.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/settings.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/man.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/man.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/info.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/info.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/recentdocuments.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/recentdocuments.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/fish.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/fish.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/sftp.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/sftp.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/akonadi.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/akonadi.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/network.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/network.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/bookmarks.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/bookmarks.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/activities.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/activities.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/filter.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/filter.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/about.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/about.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/applications.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'"
kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/mtp.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/mtp.so'"
```

See [KDE Gitlab Merge Request](https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/merge_requests/112) and [KDE Gitlab Fix Commit](https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/commit/f26acf12e265066aa2122c6f23b5a4b19c38b629).
