| Summary: | Multiple items that are part of the same package falsely suggest to the user that they can be independently removed, but they can't | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Discover | Reporter: | Dan Dascalescu <ddascalescu+kde> |
| Component: | PackageKit | Assignee: | Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | aleixpol, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | 5.18.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Why does Disocver want to remove sibling packages? Plasma addon packages have confused other users, see the comment "Why is this installed by default" re. Comic Strip. |
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Created attachment 135620 [details]
Why does Disocver want to remove sibling packages?
Discover is exposing a technical detail here: the fact that these different items are all part of the same underlying package. For example Okular includes the plugins, and Hunyango, Haenau, and the other items are all part of the same `kdeplasma-addons` package. We're confusing you because we allow a multi-item package to display multiple items in the UI, which tricks you into thinking that they can be independently installed and removed, when in fact, they can't be. It's kind of a tricky problem to solve though. In the case of the Okular plugins, they are all correctly marked as add-ons, so perhaps Discover could collapse them into the parent okular package. In the case of the kdeplasma-addons packages, maybe we need a more generic method to collapse items provided by a single package. Or maybe we need to fix a bug with those things not getitng marked as add-ons as they should Needs further investigation. Created attachment 135677 [details]
Plasma addon packages have confused other users, see the comment "Why is this installed by default" re. Comic Strip.
Heh, wow. |
Created attachment 135616 [details] Screenshot SUMMARY I don't consume need most of the formats that Okular supports, so I wanted to remove them, but keep Okular itself and PDF. However, when I tried to remove "Comic book" (for example) from Discover, it made me confirm that it would remove Okular completely, along with all other formats.