https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477280
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |INTENTIONAL
CC| |n...@kde.org
--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
The PIM module is in a separate package (kdepim-addons) because installing it
pulls in a bunch of Akonadi stuff, which some users have a reflexive distaste
for. If we made it a mandatory component, that would amount to making Akonadi
mandatory for Plasma and we'd never hear the end to it. Bad press for years,
unfortunately.
Notifying the user about it being missing might seem like an alternative, but
what if the user doesn't use the KDE PIM apps? In that case they just see a
pointless message/button all the time, taunting them for not using KDE PIM
apps.
We could in theory only show the message if KDE PIM apps are installed but the
kdepim-addons repo isn't installed... but really this is a packaging issue in
the distro. Installing one should install or at least recommend the other. And
if the PIM apps are pre-installed, then kdepim-addons should certainly be
pre-installed as well. We explicitly recommend this at
https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations, in fact.
So I don't think we have any freedom of movement to change anything here,
sorry.
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