| Summary: | Inhibition reason strings are not user-friendly | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] Powerdevil | Reporter: | ratijas <me> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Battery notes inhibition firefox video-playing | ||
Yeah since the text comes from the app itself, when you come across an app that sets a bad string, you need to report it to them. Not all apps set stupid text here, and the ones that do need to be fixed. Thanks! I feel so tired just from filing them in, ugghh... https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/26219 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1737171 Turns out, Elisa music player is doing better them both of those, but still not perfect because too many Capital Letters for No Reason. Everybody has their own style. I bet it was never documented in standard how that "reason" should look like. I would imagine not, yeah. FWIW I've fixed the unnecessary Title Case in Elisa with https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/commit/bc32cc3e1f23f26c76462dd36ab749f7cc75f03e. |
Created attachment 142730 [details] Battery notes inhibition firefox video-playing SUMMARY Inhibition reasons are not designed to be user-facing? Or at least they are mis-used by app developers. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Play video in VLC 2. Play video in firefox OBSERVED RESULT Firefox reports inhibition reason as "audio-playing". VLC reports localized "Воспроизведение мультимедиа." with a dot at the end. Both look poor, for example, in the battery applet of Plasma. Especially the dot at the end, since it displayed in (parenthesis.) EXPECTED RESULT Inhibition reasons should be uniform, localized, and user-friendly. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.12-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The best we could do is probably contact app developers one by one?