RFC: Enabling users to report issues with Plasma widgets

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Dienstag, 5. April 2016 10:45:28 CEST Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > So with the experience of the 40 plugins in KWin I think the possible
> > gains presented here do not justify the addition of code and UI elements.
> I have to disagree. You can't really compare KWin plug-ins of which users
> usually shouldn't even be aware they are a thing to Plasma applets which
> are user-facing mini applications.
> 
> A user might see the network applet shows crap and so they want to report
> specifically that to the network guy, or a minor issue in Kickoff, etc. and
> we usually have a bko component for all applets assigned to the right guy.
> 
> Re the honor of third party applets: yes, that too, we used to have that in
> widget explorer but now there's nowhere to see license or author info.


I agree with Kai: Plasmoids are much more "standalone" from a user's 
perspective than KWin effects. As he said: They are mini applications, after 
all.
And they are more likely to have bugs which the user can actually associate 
with a specific Plasmoid. If a KWin effect goes wrong, users would first have to 
identify which one in the list it is, whereas for a Plasmoid it's clear: You 
just click on the thing that went bad.