RFC: Enabling users to report issues with Plasma widgets
Gastón Cocco
glcocco at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 18:03:54 UTC 2016
Hi,
I agree with Friedrich and Kainz.a, but what user ?
I feel what Friedrich speak a basic user and Kainz.a a advanced user.
All process the bug info report is for advanced user; it happen.
I am enduser and I have KDE for everyone.
Hazlo simple.
Cheers.
El mar., 5 de abril de 2016 10:59 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <
thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> escribió:
> 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.
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