Proposal to hide raw QML errors in Plasma Next

Mark Gaiser markg85 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 15:28:31 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bhushan Shah <bhush94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently in Plasma (both Next/KDE4) we are showing raw qml error
> messages when applet fails to load.
>
> But to our users what thing is useful is "This applet <abc> failed to
> load". and to developers "Why?"
>
> So I am thinking to change AppletError somehow so that it shows simple
> user friendly error message and hides actual error message which can
> be accessible by some user actions. like clicking on some button, log
> files, or support information dbus module (is it ported or removed? I
> can not find it)
>
> So what are your opinion on it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Bhushan Shah

Does this mean that the console output is also going to be "user friendly"?
By console output i mean the output you get when you start
plasma-desktop from a console.

I think that output should be as detailed as possible (aka, not user
friendly) which it is right now.


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