NordVPN Status Plasmoid

This is an unofficial plasmoid widget that provides a graphical way to control your NordVPN connection from a widget on a panel on your KDE Plasma Desktop. It has been independently developed and is not affiliated with NordVPN in any way.

This was developed for and tested with KDE Plasma 5.18.5 on Kubuntu 20.04.

Requirements

• KDE Plasma 5 (https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/)
• Nord VPN CLI (https://nordvpn.com/download/linux/)

Installing

To install the plasmoid so that it becomes available in the "Add Widgets..." menu in Plasma, clone this repository, change directory to the root folder of the project, and run the following:

kpackagetool5 -t Plasma/Applet --install ./plasmoid

Uninstalling

To uninstall the plasmoid, run the following command:

kpackagetool5 --remove ./plasmoid

Development Requirements

You will need to install the following packages to be able to run, test and package the plasmoid:

• qtdeclarative5-dev
• qml-module-qttest
• plasma-sdk

Previewing

To run the plasmoid in a preview environment, change directory to the root folder of the project, and run the following:

plasmoidviewer -a ./plasmoid

Unit tests

Change directory to the root directory and run the following:

qmltestrunner