| Summary: | [Idea/wishlist] uninstall app from kickoff/kicker context menu | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | Application Menu (Kicker) widget | Assignee: | Eike Hein <hein> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
Nate Graham
2018-01-05 17:13:17 UTC
Try the "Manage" context menu entry? That only appears in Kickoff (IIRC, not in front of my Linux machine right now), and that term may be a bit too abstract. I think "Uninstall" or "Remove" might be better, since there's usually not much more than removing that you can do on Discover application page anyway. No: * It appears in Kicker as well, it's a shared backend feature. * It was actually changed from Uninstall to Manage upon feedback from package manager devs / distros (who need to configure what gets run when you use the action). They wanted something more generic than outright Uninstall since they don't always have a suitable uninstall callable etc. Hah, so it is. I didn't make the connection. Maybe I'm dumb, or maybe others might miss it as well. Perhaps we could consider changing it to read "Uninstall or manage <application>?" And maybe use the Discover icon instead of that somewhat mysterious dots-within-a-circle icon? Again, consider that this isn't known to always be Discover; distros can configure what it runs. We could maybe make the code super smart and try to figure out the icon of what is set, though. Could be a fair bit of work though. Fair enough. The icon isn't the most important thing in the world (though it would be nice). What do you think about changing the text to "Uninstall or Manage <app>"? I could submit a patch. I'm not so fond of the idea. IMHO it changes a simple, snappy action name to something redundant and complicated that reads like we couldn't make our mind up what it does. "Uninstall" is a subset of "Manage", too. I filed this bug after watching my wife try unsuccessfully to figure out how to uninstall a program from the Kicker context menu. I guess she didn't realize that "Manage" encompasses "Uninstall", and neither did I when I gave it a quick glance. It's nice that the feature is there, but I do worry about discoverability. |