[Bug 258171] Annoyed by 'Nepomuk Indexing Disabled - Akonadi Agent' message

[Elmar Baumann]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258171





--- Comment #66 from Elmar Baumann <eb elmar-baumann de>  2011-11-22 22:09:25 ---
I activated the desktop search to get rid that message and defined an empty
folder for indexing. Then I got 5 and more notifications, more than before,
messages like "redland can't be found" etc. Always after starting KDE I'm
distracted through (loud) notification sounds and messages. This can lead to
ignore important messages in future. It can lead to say Goodbye to KDE to avoid
"dirty hacks" like let rpm uninstalling Akonadi ignoring dependencies.

These messages are "unpolite" and are ignoring some points like (ignored by
most programs):
* Don't tell only that an error occurred, tell how it can be fixed
* Better: Don't let me make much afford to fix it, e.g. don't tell: Start abc
and set there xyz, but present within the error message an option to display a
dialog to set xyz
* These error messagees are decoupled from their scope. If I don't use desktop
search, that message is a bug. If e.g. KMail does not work correctly, KMail
should display that message.

Last but not least: The users using this bug reporting system are some of the
most valuable persons whithin the software developing process. They spend much
time to improve the software and having some knowledge: Most users don't know
what a bug reporting system is, where to find it, how to use it or willed spent
time to report bugs or how to do that in a useful way. And: Why should
thousands spend much time to work around bugs and not one or a few devolopers
to fix that bug. I know, bugfixing costs time, but in my opinion bug fixes
should have top level priority and should be done before any other things like
adding features.

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