The "Social Desktop" KCM

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:

> Hey guys
>
> We seem to be shipping a broken "Social Desktop" KCM. This KCM has not
> seen any commits in the past few years, and crashes for me (on exit) in
> Plasma 5.
>
> The KCM says it is used for the following -
> * Get Hot New Stuff
> * Community applet
> * Social News applet
>
> We're not shipping the last 2 applets. And I cannot see any information on
> how the "username" and "password" would be used in GHNS. Maybe it is used
> for setting the ratings.
>
> Other stuff that doesn't work -
> * The "Register" link is invalid
> * The Register tab doesn't do anything for me.
> * We have the option of adding a provider. What is that?
>
> It may be best if we do not ship the KCM from now on. Specially since the
> openDesktop.org is proprietary. Opinions?
>
> --
> Vishesh Handa
>

+1

I never understood why this got in, anyway.

Aleix
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