On 11.09.2016 22:49, Łukasz Sawicki wrote:
Hi,
In the last week I tested a new Plasma 5.8 feature "Look and feel
layouts" to have something for our Plasma 5.8 promo materials. Let me
share some experiences here.
1. Random crashes (especially when I switch "Look and feel layouts"
for the first time. Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce this
reliably
2. Basic functionality not working correctly
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367918
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368074
3. Some other weird bugs
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368022
I'd say these are just bugs to be fixed. That's what beta testing is for.
Since this is a new feature bugs are to be expected and I am sure
Plasma team will fix them for Plasma 5.8 release. But what worries me
the most is the missing functionality of plasma look and feel packages
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367921
which may result in broken desktop
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367920
Simply put when users will download a new lf package from
kde-look/store they will expect that plasma lf package will provide
all elements like icons, wallpapers, plasma themes, plasma applets
etc. We can't expect from our users to manually download all required
packages when installing plasma lf package. I am afraid that in the
current state we will get many comments from our users about yet
another unfinished Plasma feature and not working content in KDE
Store.
That is indeed a problem which we need a solution for before we ship this
feature.
I agree that we cannot expect users to hunt down all the individual themes that
make up an L&F theme.
This has to happen automatically if we activate the feature to download L&F
themes via KNS.
So here my proposal. Lets postpone this feature for Plasma 5.9 and
remove any visible parts from look and feel kcm ("use desktop layout
from theme" and "get new looks").
Why give up before we tried?
If we can fix the issues before the release, why holding it back?
So guys please work on this a little bit more and release something we
can be proud of, like this:
https://youtu.be/aLKHycF4rPw
No need to be extra-vehement here. You pointed out valid and important issues,
now it's the Plasma
team's task to deal with them, in one way or another.
Cheers,
Thomas
