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The "KDE Applications" bundle.
Use this tag only for applications which are

  • part of the "KDE Applications" bundle and
  • they have no other specific tag/projects, or no knowns/long term maintainers.

Recent Activity

Nov 25 2022

cfeck removed a member for KDE Applications: cfeck.
Nov 25 2022, 7:17 PM

Apr 16 2022

win added a member for KDE Applications: win.
Apr 16 2022, 12:55 AM

Mar 7 2022

paulb closed T11933: Debrand KDE Applications as Release Service as Resolved.
Mar 7 2022, 6:46 PM · KDE Promo, KDE Applications, Goal: All About the Apps

Feb 17 2022

lordhelpus triaged T15290: Prepare for possible weakening of HTTPS security by Europe's new proposed law as High priority.
Feb 17 2022, 5:40 PM · Neon, KDE Applications, KDE Privacy Goal

Sep 8 2021

paulb closed T14201: Create KDE Gear 21.04 Release Announcement as Resolved.
Sep 8 2021, 6:17 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Jun 14 2021

ngraham added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

To close the loop on this, the feature has now been integrated, and I have submitted a merge request to remove the button from the toolbar: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/1104

Jun 14 2021, 7:56 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Jun 12 2021

brute4s99 added a comment to T10243: Some KDE applications could use better icons.

I think KDE Connect has a quite outdated icon too.

Jun 12 2021, 6:21 AM · KDE Applications, VDG

May 15 2021

ngraham closed T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality as Wontfix.

The new tooltip isn't merged yet. Once it is, it will be safe to remove the window decoration button. Until then, the button has to remain, because some people might still be using it.

May 15 2021, 4:14 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
markuss reopened T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality as "Open".

The What's This titlebar button is not available in other desktops and made obsolete by the new tooltip implementation. The new implementation should work everywhere, the button definitively doesn't.

May 15 2021, 12:42 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
rjvbb added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

In addition:

  • I only see said button when using KWin
  • KWin allows me to configure which titlebar buttons I want to see (and where).
May 15 2021, 12:16 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
ahmadsamir added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

[...]

for Qt 6 the ? button will automatically disappear, if we don't actively enable it ourself.

May 15 2021, 12:15 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
cullmann added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

If I don't misunderstand the Qt docs:

May 15 2021, 12:12 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
ahmadsamir added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

Adding to what @dfaure said, I think the button is useful, and it should be opt-out, not opt-in; the former is simple using systemsettings, the latter is impossible to discover, because how would a new user find out there is actually a question mark button that can be used to show extra info about some GUI element.

May 15 2021, 12:11 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
dfaure added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

"Who cares" (which really means "I don't care", since clearly there are people who do care), and "stupid" are not constructive feedback nor acceptable language in this community.
Here's a constructive suggestion for how your feedback should have looked like:

May 15 2021, 11:59 AM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
markuss added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

Who cares what you use the strings for, this request is about removing the stupid button on the title bar and that's more than before a valid request.

May 15 2021, 11:31 AM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

May 14 2021

ngraham closed T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality as Wontfix.

We decided to go in entirely the opposite direction and use the "What's This" strings for expanded tooltips. See https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kxmlgui/-/merge_requests/45

May 14 2021, 8:36 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

May 6 2021

paulb moved T14201: Create KDE Gear 21.04 Release Announcement from Doing - Tasks that are actively worked on to Done on the KDE Promo board.
May 6 2021, 5:58 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Mar 18 2021

jriddell added a comment to T14201: Create KDE Gear 21.04 Release Announcement.

Announce is being worked on in this branch https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/merge_requests/85/diffs

Mar 18 2021, 12:07 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
jriddell added projects to T14201: Create KDE Gear 21.04 Release Announcement: KDE Applications, Goal: All About the Apps.
Mar 18 2021, 12:06 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Mar 1 2021

mikeljohnson added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

I've read it, just gave my opinion on the status quo

Mar 1 2021, 9:24 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
rjvbb added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

That's a substantial list which includes applications with a steepish learning curve that probably provide useful information in the What's This texts.

Mar 1 2021, 9:06 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
mikeljohnson added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

That's not really helpful now is it?
Did a bit of research with SourceGraph (excluded deprecated stuff + projects that have high usage) -> loaded all results-> regexed text from page

Mar 1 2021, 4:57 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
ahmadsamir added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

grep'ing in kdesrc-build/kde/src/:

Mar 1 2021, 3:56 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
mikeljohnson added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

btw how many apps actually use this feature? It might be worth going over them case by case if there's only a few (only seen it in dolphin and ksysguard, which is going bye-bye)

Mar 1 2021, 3:47 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Feb 24 2021

jriddell closed T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements as Resolved.
Feb 24 2021, 3:47 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
jriddell added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

I've scheduled in the first quarterly app update article here https://phabricator.kde.org/E754

Feb 24 2021, 3:47 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Feb 22 2021

rjvbb added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.
I agree but I had to draw the line somewhere. I drew it at terms like file, folder, view. Otherwise I would have to paraphrase or explain them in every other text. The context help isn't that well suited for a very basic introduction.
Feb 22 2021, 8:41 AM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Feb 21 2021

felixernst added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.
In T9986#249646, @rjvbb wrote:

In fact, I hear even more: users as inexperienced (not to say clueless...) as you suggest they are will probably not understand much of the example What'sThis text - which explains things in just more unfamiliar concepts.

Feb 21 2021, 4:31 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
felixernst added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

I made a proof of concept of an expandable tooltip based on a lot of feedback from this discussion. I think this would be a fine way to provide context help. It allows us to provide it in many of the typical circumstances: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kxmlgui/-/merge_requests/45

Feb 21 2021, 4:30 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
bgKDE added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

Regarding the timing/diminishing-returns issue (as I agree with ltoscano that its separate from naming)... I feel it's a 2-step decision-tree here:

Feb 21 2021, 8:48 AM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
bgKDE added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

A challenge I think I'm seeing coming up with a good name is that... KDE sounds really, *really* *cool* already. Like, more than three letters have any right to be.

Feb 21 2021, 7:26 AM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
bgKDE added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

How about "KDE Drop" for quadmonthly update?

Feb 21 2021, 7:19 AM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Feb 15 2021

jriddell added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

e-mail send to kde-community

Feb 15 2021, 1:01 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Feb 12 2021

achauvel added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

I find the contextual help quite nice but I don’t see how beginners are actually supposed to use this when experienced users like me (20 years of computers/10 years of Linux) didn’t even know it worked.

Feb 12 2021, 6:27 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
ahmadsamir added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

FWIW, what's this text is useful for old/experienced users too (I still use it occasionally in e.g. Kate/Dolphin settings dialog, for settings that I haven't changed before, or don't change frequently), it's a simple/fast alternative to having to search through the handbook/manual or search online...

Feb 12 2021, 2:55 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Feb 11 2021

rjvbb added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.
  • It was incompletely implemented by developers, reducing the incentive to enter the mode that showed the balloons
Feb 11 2021, 11:21 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
ngraham added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

For reference, Apple used to have this feature by the name of "Balloon Help" back before Mac OS X. It suffered from the same problem as ours:

  • It was incompletely implemented by developers, reducing the incentive to enter the mode that showed the balloons
  • The people who could conceivably benefit from it were so hopeless that they never found the feature and really just needed hand-holding by a physical person in the room with them
Feb 11 2021, 9:14 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
rjvbb added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

Felix Ernst wrote on 20210210::18:07:07 re: "T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality"

Feb 11 2021, 1:27 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Feb 10 2021

waqar added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

Thanks! I might have already done more work in that direction if there wasn't this task with many comments pushing towards removing contextual help in general

Feb 10 2021, 7:18 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
felixernst added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

That solution looks indeed nice, too.
I would have no issue to adopt that one. Merge requests welcome :P

Feb 10 2021, 6:07 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
waqar added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

The UI, yes, to the extent possible. Which is often not the case because there is simply no place for additional text (if that's what you were suggesting) and even if there were it would lead to a lot of visual clutter.

Feb 10 2021, 12:20 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Feb 9 2021

staniek added a comment to T12594: New Kate icon.

Hi
Call this late opinion, but I got the Kate icon with a recent openSUSE update. It has unclear silhouette (because the blue dot is dominant) and visually conflicts with lots of other "blue-dot" icons. Example: Chromium, and Bluefish and skype and telegram. Can we do better? E.g. do something also supporting lower resolutions that show more clear silhouette?

Feb 9 2021, 8:58 PM · KDE Applications, VDG

Feb 8 2021

heikobecker added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.
It's quite ad hoc but it seems to work well on an effort-to-reward ratio as I do see people posting these bugfix announcements on social media.
Feb 8 2021, 9:50 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
ngraham added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

We do bugfix announcements for Plasma, but they are very small and low effort, with typically three prominent bugfixes selected on the day of the announcement by Jon yelling "hey who knows what cool things were fixed recently?" in the plasma chatroom. It's quite ad hoc but it seems to work well on an effort-to-reward ratio as I do see people posting these bugfix announcements on social media.

Feb 8 2021, 9:45 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
paulb added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

One thing to tidy up then is how should bugfix releases be announced? An e-mail to kde-announce yes and an info page like https://kde.org/info/releases-20.12.2/ but should there be anything at all at https://kde.org/announcements/ and on the front page or just nothing at all?

Feb 8 2021, 1:43 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo
jriddell added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

One thing to tidy up then is how should bugfix releases be announced? An e-mail to kde-announce yes and an info page like https://kde.org/info/releases-20.12.2/ but should there be anything at all at https://kde.org/announcements/ and on the front page or just nothing at all?

Feb 8 2021, 11:02 AM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Feb 6 2021

rjvbb added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.
Not really. This is just the same Whatsthis with a button in front.
Feb 6 2021, 10:16 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG
waqar added a comment to T9986: Delete "What's This" inline help functionality.

I think a solution like https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/51 would be a good fit for the Kate/KTextEditor config dialog.

Feb 6 2021, 8:41 PM · Goal: Consistency, KDE Applications, Plasma, KF6, VDG

Feb 5 2021

heikobecker added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

To coincide with the next major version of the release service, on April, 22nd?
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/release_service/21.04_Release_Schedule#Thursday.2C_April_22.2C_2021:_21.04_Release

Feb 5 2021, 8:06 AM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo

Feb 4 2021

paulb added a comment to T14091: Improve the App Update Announcements.

What would the new calendar look like? When would the next announcement be made?

Feb 4 2021, 11:27 PM · Goal: All About the Apps, KDE Applications, KDE Promo