Plasmoids: X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website=http://plasma.kde.org/ invalid?

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, April 19, 2014 11:29:50 scl wrote:
>> > I lately reworked a plasmoid. As desired in
>> > the [Plasma/QML Getting started document]
>> > the file metadata.desktop contains the line
>> > X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website=http://plasma.kde.org/.
>> >
>> > However, when I enter this URL in my browser
>> > I can't access it. I tried yesterday and today
>> > and with various computers and browsers but
>> > always get the same result. Ping immediately
>> > results in timeout.
>> >
>> > Is this URL still valid and if not, which
>> > URL do developers need to include now?
>>
>> This key is meant to be the user-visible website, so perhaps
>> http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma is a better starting point to point to?
>>
>> Plasma team: Any objections against changing it throughout? We haven't
>> bothered to update plasma.kde.org in years and now it's dead (and that's
>> probably a good thing), maybe it's time to admit that and run a perl
>> script
>> over our metadata.desktop files? (I can do that.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> sebas
>>
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>
> +1
>

FWIW, we could also make kde sysadmin point plasma.kde.org to that url,
otherwise we'll have lost links all over the place, which is a huge loss
either way.

Aleix
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