Unprofessional text in plasmoids for download
Dotan Cohen
kde-3 at dotancohen.com
Mon Apr 27 21:59:06 CEST 2009
I reported a KDE bug regarding the summary text of kde-look plasmoids
that are appearing in the Add Plasmoids dialogue. Here is the bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190779
The lead Plasma dev suggested that I write to this address with details
about which plasmoids have bad grammar, immature, or other undesirable text.
Magic Folder: A Plasmoid someone asked for
Not only is this incorrect grammar (missing "that"), it does not
describe what the plasmoid does.
Kulo: This is my first plasmoid, written in python, using...
There is no description of what the plasmoid does. Nor does the user
care if this is the dev's first of five hundredth plasmoid.
T-arduino: This is a simple plasmoid written in python. It read...
Again, no description of what the plasmoid does. What does the user care
what language it is written in?
QuickUrl: This very simple plasmoid offers the possibility to a...
No description of what the plasmoid does, but at least the name gives a
hint. I suppose if the introductory text were longer the author would
have gotten around to mentioning what his creation does.
Tarmoid: Tarmoid
No description of what the plasmoid does.
There are many more examples, but I would like to point out that stating
that a plasmoid is "simple" or "a plasmoid" is redundant when there is
so little space to make use of. Please have someone proofread the
descriptions, correct errors, and ensure that the description is concise
enough to describe the plasmoid in the space allocated for it.
Thanks.
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