On 06.05.2014 17:27, Mario Fux wrote:
Aren't the version number mostly important for bug reporting and there they are extracted automatically?
Not only for bug reporting but whenever there is a problem. I don't care what version of a piece of software I run, until the moment when something doesn't work. In that moment, I click "Help -> About", copy the version number and paste it into my search engine of choice, with the application name and the word "problem", "slow" or whatever. This increases the chance that what I find will be relevant for my situation a lot. For Plasma problems I usually just use the version number of the current SC. Interestingly, looking at the package version may not be helpful these days, because some distros just go ahead and bump the package version of any package version number for Plasma packages up with every new SC release, regardless of whether there was a new Plasma Workspaces release with it.
I agree that we don't have to talk about version numbers in any marketing message (they don't carry actual meaning for users anymore since Chrome introduced inflationary version numbering), but we still have to provide easy ways for users to access them when there's a problem.
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