Bug 435408

Summary: Add Opt-In Telemetry for menu and toolbar items in KDE Framework to integrate into apps
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kuserfeedback Reporter: Murz <MurzNN>
Component: Telemetry ProviderAssignee: Volker Krause <vkrause>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://phabricator.kde.org/T13518
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Description Murz 2021-04-06 06:31:49 UTC 
At now KDE apps have some Opt-In telemetry, described at https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use and it is too scarce! There are only info about versions, hardware, start count and usage time.

For real useful feedback developers need the app interaction data: which menu items and buttons are used often, which are less, where users clicks frequently, etc.

I know, that opinion of most of users on telemetry collection is bad...

But there are many other users (including me), that really want to help improving the apps usability by submitting more detailed telemetry! And adding ability to enable the opt-in telemetry will give them chance to help developers with understanding user interaction flows of his apps, without upset the other part of users, that afraid the telemetry totally.

So will be great to implement in KDE Frameworks ability to easily integrate enabling of telemetry collection of base app elements, such as menu items, toolbar keys, hotkeys, etc, to any KDE-based app.

What do you think about this idea?
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-04-06 14:49:13 UTC 
Yes, I generally agree. I'd really like to collect information regarding which settings are changed from their default values, at the minimum. What we collect right now is barely actionable IMO.

Let's continue the discussion at https://phabricator.kde.org/T13518, where it's already been started.

Thanks!