removal of KWhatsThisManager?

[Markus]

Does anybody even use the "What's this?" at all?
IMHO that whole thing is an outdated concept from the Win95 days. Is there 
some firm usability data on that topic?

Am Freitag 14 Mai 2010, 19:42:35 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> hi everyone ...
> 
> KWhatsThisManager was introduced in 2004 as a way to hopefully get some of
> our users contributing back whatsthis help entries by showing a helpful
> "there is no content, if you'd like to provide some content, click here"
> which then spawns an email that the person may fill in. neat idea.
> 
> i don't know how successful it's been, but sometimes people do click on it
> and try to help out, as can be seen here:
> 
> 	https://bugs.kde.org/237488?id=237488
> 
> unfortunately, the email address it uses bounces. i just tried myself and
> apparently it goes to kde-usability-issues at kde.org which no longer exists.
> 
> the question i have is: do we want to maintain this service? if so, it
> needs to be made more robust and that email needs to go somewhere. and i
> could probably just file a sysadmin bug to get that hooked up somewhere...
> but the question is: where?
> 
> personally, i don't think it's worth maintaining. why?
> 
> * it installs a global event filter on the qApp as soon as you create a
> KDialog or KMainWindow
> 
> * for applications that are not written by the core KDE community, there is
> really very little we can do with the submissions, and we're now getting
> complaints about this on kde-devel
> 
> * i'm not sure it's the most elegant thing to show a bunch of "no
> content..", "no content.." messages to people; given that we still have
> such widgets all over the place in KDE, i don't think this idea has
> actually worked out
> 
> * it's obviously not being overly well maintained at the moment :)
> 
> so, unless there are any objections, i will remove KWhatsThisManager from
> kdeui (thankfully it's a private class).