Bug 505761

Summary: Vague icon bubbles popping on Anonymous usage information parameters.
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Erwin Iosef <rblade457>
Component: kcm_feedbackAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: aleixpol, kde, nate, olib141
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 6.4.1
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Usage parameters in welcome center showing weird icon-bubbles

Description Erwin Iosef 2025-06-19 04:40:12 UTC
These strange looking things pop up when hovering the cursor over the usage side pointers in the last second section of the welcome center.
Comment 1 Erwin Iosef 2025-06-19 04:56:24 UTC
Created attachment 182374 [details]
Usage parameters in welcome center showing weird icon-bubbles
Comment 2 Oliver Beard 2025-06-19 11:01:11 UTC
I'll move this to the User Feedback KCM — they are certainly a strange UI feature and need some context as to what they are trying to convey.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-06-19 20:16:56 UTC
This is a pretty odd UX, yeah. I think I'll have to read the code to figure out what exactly these tooltips are trying to communicate.
Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2025-06-19 23:05:43 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5612
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-06-20 14:29:44 UTC
Git commit 3c277146c4ec44cde54988dcd6c70b17442ad5e9 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 20/06/2025 at 13:47.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

kcms/feedback: remove little hover icons

These icons have an unclear purpose since they have no text, and the
same icons are not repeated elsewhere in the KCM's UI to provide some
clue as to their meaning or purpose. They only appear on hover and
can't be accessed on touch at all; let's just remove them to prevent
user confusion.

The backend code providing icons in the model is preserved in case we
ever want to do something else with icons in the future.
FIXED-IN: 6.4.1

M  +0    -21   kcms/feedback/ui/main.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/3c277146c4ec44cde54988dcd6c70b17442ad5e9
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2025-06-20 14:38:07 UTC
Git commit a4e153b3451239e0efb563ecbae84e9cfec14b37 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 20/06/2025 at 14:38.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.4'.

kcms/feedback: remove little hover icons

These icons have an unclear purpose since they have no text, and the
same icons are not repeated elsewhere in the KCM's UI to provide some
clue as to their meaning or purpose. They only appear on hover and
can't be accessed on touch at all; let's just remove them to prevent
user confusion.

The backend code providing icons in the model is preserved in case we
ever want to do something else with icons in the future.
FIXED-IN: 6.4.1


(cherry picked from commit 3c277146c4ec44cde54988dcd6c70b17442ad5e9)

Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org>

M  +0    -21   kcms/feedback/ui/main.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/a4e153b3451239e0efb563ecbae84e9cfec14b37
Comment 7 Erwin Iosef 2025-06-21 05:41:12 UTC
Code cleanup FTW!