[Bug 279218] New: overwhelmed by useless windows and pop-ups

[Sergey Kondakov]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279218

           Summary: overwhelmed by useless windows and pop-ups
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: virtuousfox at gmail.com


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

with each new release of KDE there are more and more and more and more and more
of absolutely useless windows with "OK, i will masturbate my mouse a little
more" button, obstructions in plasma notification area or otherwise.

most recent ones that bothering personally me are:
1) on each login there is a bunch (~3-5) identical plasma messages magging me
about nepomuk being disabled. yes, i know, it's disabled because i switched it
off because i don't need that shit, thank you very much.
2) with update to 4.7.0 now every time kmail/akonadi tries to check status of
mail accounts while network connection is failed it puts error windows with
"OK" on my desktop... for every mail account on every try it spawns a new one.
today when i looked on the screen after few hours of absence there were at
least 70 of them... SEVENTY! and i had to click on each of them and i will have
to click on them for a while, i'm sure.
3) same shit only with plasma spamming in bug 275698
4) some more with bug 247615
5) in same situation kopete spawns "unknown error" several rimes and then stops
trying to reconnect at all. instead it should say "connectivity to server $X
used by account $Y is lost" (for established connections) & "server $X, needed
for account $Y, is unreachable" (on new connection fail) once and then silently
indefinitely try to reconnect and not to give one more error until it succeeded
in reconnection at least once.
same goes for every other KDE app.
6) it's often now that some useless or insignificant window would steal focus
from kwallet which asking for master-password even on "average" focus-stealing
prevention setting. should i explain the implication ?
7) there is some weird crap going on with "akonadi resources" and KDE session
data saving in general. for example:
a) if i push Alt+F2 and write "kmail" there it will come up with 4 answers...
yes. one "run kmail", two "KMail" with "mail client" description and one more
"KMail" without description. what the hell is that ?
b) if there were 2 konqueror instances with different sets of directories
opened in their tabs and i would end KDE session, next time they get "restored"
there are 2 konqueror instances with only one, same, set in both. and other one
is lost. or sometimes after a month suddenly konqueror with this lost set pops
up instead of sets that should.
and no, i didn't "loose" it on different screen, virtual or otherwise. KDE does
some weird stuff.
c) akonadi never properly migrates its "resources" (why the hell data is still
in random files all around if you already forced full-blown SQL on desktops ?!)
properly from KDE 3.5 or some previous version. it pushes some, skips other,
puts entries for stuff in ~/.kde3.5 instead of copying it in proper places and
makes bogus entries which don't apparently do anything.
most recently, with 4.7.0 update it decided to make about a HUNDRED or more
entries for knotes file from ~/.kde3.5 folder. when i removed them (more mouse
masturbation), it did it again but only with 1 entry. when i removed it, plasma
died and didn't come back. after i launched it manually from ssh, desktop from
screen :0,1 been drawn on my main, :0.0, desktop, after a minute it disappeared
and akonadi didn't try "migrate" anything since.
8) with update to 4.7.0 shitty little dialog of krunner comes up not only on
Alt+F2 but on EVERY SINGLE writable character BUTTON on keyboard. which screws
with my hotkeys really good.
and by the way, for KDE folks, who said to me in times of ~4.0 that this
krunner dialog is nice new replacement for kicker's command line plugin instead
of proper plasmoid - it's still trying to be smarter than me and ignores
scripts and commands with preceded variable override like `DISPLAY=:0.1 kdialog
--msgbox fail`.

all that looks like clusterfuck of ridiculous overengineered design without any
order. i'm sure there are tens of similar examples that i worked around and
forgot but what bothers me most is that even if i finally built configuration
that don't constantly fail in weird ways something still finds a way to nag me
constantly. something absolutely irrelevant i couldn't do or would not want to,
as i user, do anything about.

so i ask KDE developers: please, don't put any more damn messages, windows,
pop-ups and notifications that say something user can't interpret or should not
give two shits about. Windows® UI is good at that and this is not something to
compete by.
same goes for unnecessary mouse clicks and overabundance of ways to store/point
to user data without any consistency.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
try every KDE release since 4.0.0

Actual Results:  
simple actions require more and more clicks;
simple output becomes more and more unintelligible;
programs nag at user more than user at them;
user waits for programs to get their shit together more than programs wait for
user input.

Expected Results:  
reverse.

STOP THAT TREND.

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