Review Request 124576: Show a dialog if Plasma failed to create an OpenGL Context

[Martin Klapetek]

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shell/main.cpp (line 44)
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    Just now I've read the actual message, "Please confirm your drivers" has two issues - a) it should mention graphics driver (OpenGL may not be that connection that users would make) and b) "confirm" suggests there's a button which will continue with the launching, kinda like "This video contains violence, please confirm you are over 15 [I am, let me in] [I'm not]", but this is not the case.
    
    That said, I believe that "Please check that your graphics drivers are installed correctly" would read better to the users.
    
    Thinking a bit more about it (though for later patch), maybe it should also offer to log out or open Konsole? Because this way you're just left out with black screen, unable to do anything.


- Martin Klapetek


On Aug. 1, 2015, 11:37 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 1, 2015, 11:37 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Show a dialog if Plasma failed to create an OpenGL Context.
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> remove that "shutup" option we had, it was a workaround for an issue with Qt5.1 spewing warnings constantly.
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> Diffs
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>   shell/main.cpp cec4a69c6276de61d776f323fb4b5cebe73f4c3f 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124576/diff/
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> Testing
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> Normal plasma is the same as before.
> I don't know how to break my openGL, but placing a random qFatal() with the same error message got my dialog perfectly.
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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