[Kde-graphics-devel] Review Request 123873: Add "Alternatives" menu to Help menu

[Boudhayan Gupta]

> On Jan. 22, 2016, 10:17 p.m., Boudhayan Gupta wrote:
> > I'd rather you dropped this. KSnapshot is essentially dead, and I'm not sure we want to do something like this in Spectacle either. Looking for alternative apps is something you'd do in the app store, not inside the application itself. Posting alternative apps in the application will only serve to confuse users.
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> Gregor Mi wrote:
>     Ah sorry, this patch is indeed meant for spectacle (as successor of ksnapshot). I'll move it there in case the general idea is accepted.
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>     About usability: for people who would like to explore their system, I think it is far easier to select from a ready-made list instead of using the package manager. At least for YaST which I use here, I see no straight-forward way of getting a list of alternative apps to the default one if I don't know exactly for what I am looking for.

As the maintainer for both apps, I'm not going to accept this idea.

I'll re-iterate why:

* As I said, it will only serve to confuse users. The place to suggest alternative apps is the package manager or app store, not inside the app itself.
* If this were accepted (which it won't), all other KDE apps would need to suggest alternatives to themselves for consistency. If not it'd only add to the confusion arising from the previous point, not lessen it.

If you're serious about the idea of suggesting alternative apps, I'd suggest trying to implement something in Plasma, something that suggests alternatives at a more "global" place. The application isn't the place to do this at all.


- Boudhayan


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On Jan. 22, 2016, 3:11 p.m., Gregor Mi wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 22, 2016, 3:11 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Graphics, KSnapshot, andreas kainz, Boudhayan Gupta, and Matthias Klumpp.
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> Repository: ksnapshot
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> Description
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> Adds an "Alternatives" menu to the Help menu which contains other screenshot-taking applications.
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> So, instead of searching the web for alternative applications, the user can find good, hand-picked alternatives directly from within ksnapshot. Applications which are not installed, will be placed in the "More" submenu.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.Sources.txt 522fc3f0f943e5c2856c76e93174d39661ca9c50 
>   CMakeLists.txt cdab928a7db0e7ea29fba35880250639461dbb1e 
>   ksnapshot.h 71ecd6f98485ee8dc488fa8ad8370dc8ca6786b5 
>   ksnapshot.cpp ac0f2c4f44d47e1a4ae4a318382253a23ad1ed4a 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123873/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> alternatives menu.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/05/21/7246e0b6-8f31-4183-9f8b-3f52643c040d__alternatives_menu.png
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> Thanks,
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> Gregor Mi
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