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

David Jarvie djarvie at kde.org
Sun Sep 19 00:37:36 BST 2010


Hi Tobias,

On Friday 10 September 2010 14:47:37 Tobias König wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:36:15 David Jarvie wrote:
> Hej David,
> 
> > While testing KAlarm, the Akonadi conflict resolve dialog popped up
> > repeatedly.
> Sounds mostly like a bug somewhere, unhidden by the conflict detection.
> 
> > 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.
> Ok, should be improved. Feel free to add descriptive labels, the code is in 
> kdepimlibs/akonadi/conflictdetection
> 
> > It just displayed the raw iCalendar text of some calendar items -
> Hmm, then something is wrong, it should actually load the serializer plugin 
> for the mimetype of this item and access its AbstractDifferencesAlgorithm 
> interface (if it provides one)... Well, the kcal serializer plugin should 
> provide one, maybe you are using the kcalcore serializer plugin? That doesn't 
> provide the interface yet afaik, but the code should be possible to copy 1:1 
> from the kcal serializer plugin.
> 
> > Given the lack of context, the option button texts are also
> > meaningless.
> Yepp, feel free to improve :)

I've added a caption and some explanatory text. It still won't be understandable to many users, but I hope it's a bit better.

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