removal of KWhatsThisManager?

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

To jump on that, and because we discussed it recently in #oxygen,
the appearance of what's this dialogs is _ugly_ (what the hell is this 
patterned shadow ?) and not stylable (the QWhatsThat::paintEvent method is 
100% hard coded and makes no access to the widget style() at all.

IMO: Qt has not been touching this code for years and years

Hugo 

(who just failed trying to add some gloss and some roundness to this).


On Friday, May 14, 2010 02:48:46 pm Markus wrote:
> 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 IMHO that whole thing is an outdated concept from the Win95 days.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).