Review Request: Adds support for Share-Like-Connect, making khangman activity enabled

Sebastian Gottfried sebastiangottfried at web.de
Tue Oct 30 12:48:35 UTC 2012


Hi,

sorry for intercepting your discussion, but this is a general issue and here
is my point of view.

> How will I know as a user there is such a feature in the application if I
> just install one KDE application which is KHangMan for instance? 
Probably not at all. In this case I think that's actually good thing. The S-L-
C support the patch introduces is invisible within application. The patch only 
activates resource tracking, so in KHangMan's case the selected lesson shows 
up in the Plasmoid.

So if the user uses that feature he interacts with the workspace shell, not 
with the application.

Therefore I think its pretty pointless to add to every application's handbook 
a section "The [insert your resource types here] can be shared/liked/connected 
via the S-L-C applet, if your desktop has one, and they will show up in your 
activities" At one point in future, every user will just expect that 
applications support this, no need to restate that in every single handbook.

If the user uses the application on a different desktop then KDE, let say 
GNOME or even Windows, the information that this application supports S-L-C 
won't help him ever, because his desktop shell doesn't even support the 
concept.

Best regards,

Sebastian


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