[Kde-pim] Akonadi conflict resolve dialog is not user friendly

[David Jarvie]

While testing KAlarm, the Akonadi conflict resolve dialog popped up repeatedly. I couldn't understand what the dialog was, or why it was popping up. Only after searching the codebase for the button texts did I discover what the dialog's purpose was.

As a developer, I was eventually able to work out what the dialog was about. A poor user being presented with it would probably stand no chance, since it has no useful caption, and no explanation as to what it means. It just displayed the raw iCalendar text of some calendar items - gobbledegook for most users. Given the lack of context, the option button texts are also meaningless.

It isn't obvious to me how it could be changed, since it very likely isn't possible to present the data in an understandable way since that would require the data's meaning to be interpreted. But  it definitely needs to be completely revamped if it is ever to be shown to users.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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