Bug 357790

Summary: about plasmoid information
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] libplasma Reporter: andreas <kainz.a>
Component: componentsAssignee: David Redondo <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: alexander.lohnau, kde, msdobrescu, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Other   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.20

Description andreas 2016-01-10 13:45:40 UTC
all applications have an about dialog (in the help section) where you get the information how is response to the app and where you can get more information. as plasmoid use .desktop files like desktop applications it would be nice to have this useful information in the property section of plasmoids.
in addition most plasmoid have only the keyboard entry in the configuration dialog.
it would be also easier for contributors to get the right name of the plasmoid (kicker, kickoff, ... ) how is response for and maybe where to geht the source code.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Marco Martin 2016-02-17 09:49:45 UTC
makes sense, more a whishlist than an actual problem
Comment 2 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2020-06-30 13:13:22 UTC
Hello, I think it is useful for users to get the name of the widget and know where to add some bug report or feature request, what is the source of a widget, from a distro or third party or if it's an official KDE Plasma widget.
Comment 3 Alexander Lohnau 2020-07-11 18:42:02 UTC
(In reply to Mihai Sorin Dobrescu from comment #2)
> Hello, I think it is useful for users to get the name of the widget and know
> where to add some bug report or feature request, what is the source of a
> widget, from a distro or third party or if it's an official KDE Plasma
> widget.

Yes, totally agree :-).
Comment 4 David Redondo 2020-07-13 07:09:36 UTC
I have an idea/prototype.
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2020-07-13 15:11:32 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/63
Comment 6 David Redondo 2020-08-04 14:20:47 UTC
Git commit 8868bb835d23afd3caf46ade3a3236421c492ba8 by David Redondo.
Committed on 04/08/2020 at 09:41.
Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'.

Add an about page to ConfigView

This is a copy of AboutPage from Kirigami with the following changes:
- Property names have been changed to match KPluginMetadata instead of KAboutData
- The license text is in a Dialog instead of an OverlaySheet
- Supports only one license because KPluginMetadata only supports one license
- Dropped the part about Qt and KF versions

A  +192  -0    desktoppackage/contents/configuration/AboutPlugin.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
M  +10   -0    desktoppackage/contents/configuration/AppletConfiguration.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/8868bb835d23afd3caf46ade3a3236421c492ba8