Bug 351337 - Help->About KDE has no version info
Summary: Help->About KDE has no version info
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords:
: 351338 362050 378381 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-08-15 18:13 UTC by Jonathan Ryshpan
Modified: 2017-04-20 23:35 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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attachment-4970-0.html (1.86 KB, text/html)
2015-08-17 17:48 UTC, Bobbie Sellers
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Description Jonathan Ryshpan 2015-08-15 18:13:16 UTC
Normally opening Help->About gives the version number of the application.  In this case, no.  I got the version number from Help->Report Bug , not exactly intuitive.

A small complaint, but easy to fix.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start System Settings
2. Click Help->About
3. Read

Actual Results:  
Version number should be somewhere in the text.

Expected Results:  
Version number is nowhere in the text.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2015-08-17 13:43:05 UTC
There is a separate "Version" tab in the About dialog of each KDE application.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2015-08-17 13:44:17 UTC
*** Bug 351338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jonathan Ryshpan 2015-08-17 14:31:00 UTC
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1)
> There is a separate "Version" tab in the About dialog of each KDE  application.

Unfortunately my report was totally unclear.  There is no 
  System Settings->Help->About
tab.  I should have written 
  System Settings->Help->About KDE
Which is where I always look for the version number of the KDE release on my system.

The version number of the application and the framework (I think this means the KDE release) is available at 
  System Settings->Click Help->About System Settings.

BTW: There is no version number tab in the window that appears at 
  System Settings->Help->About KDE

Sorry about the lack of clarity - jon
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2015-08-17 14:40:38 UTC
There is no "KDE version", because KDE is the community, not the software.
Comment 5 Bobbie Sellers 2015-08-17 17:48:10 UTC
Created attachment 94085 [details]
attachment-4970-0.html

On 08/17/2015 07:40 AM, Christoph Feck wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351337
>
> --- Comment #4 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> ---
> There is no "KDE version", because KDE is the community, not the software.
>
     Ok,  KDE Platform Version is missing from the System 
Settings/Help/About KDE
  under whatever version is on Korora 22.
     I determined this by inspecting my System Settings in Mageia 5 
where it says:
>
> KDE - Be Free! Platform Version 4.14.5
>
     I hope KDE Plasma 5 gets up to the refinement of the this version
where the date and time can be copied from the Digital Clock in the
system tray or Task Bar(panel).  I went thru the nearly pointless clock
business when 4.x.x was out years ago when I was using Mandriva.

     bliss

     bliss
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2015-08-17 19:53:38 UTC
> KDE Platform Version is missing from the System Settings/Help/About KDE

The frameworks version is part of the About dialog of each application, in the Version tab.
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2015-11-06 11:55:46 UTC
*** Bug 354943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 darwin te 2016-03-22 16:15:01 UTC
About KDE in konsole does not give any version info on Kubuntu 16.04.  The information is needed.
Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2016-03-22 20:52:46 UTC
Please read comment #4 and comment #6. If you need the Plasma version, use KInfoCenter, not Konsole.
Comment 10 darwin te 2016-03-23 22:17:09 UTC
KInfoCenter --> Help --> About KDE Info Center --> this shows KDE info center version info
KInfoCenter --> Help --> About KDE --> this does not show KDE version, is a bug.  Shoud show KDE version.
Comment 11 Christoph Feck 2016-03-23 22:33:18 UTC
Please read comment #4. There is no KDE version.

KInfoCenter displays the Plasma version, see e.g. screenshot at http://i.imgur.com/7zJ5HZr.png
Comment 12 Christoph Feck 2016-04-22 10:16:32 UTC
*** Bug 362050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 pbhj 2016-07-18 21:28:29 UTC
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #11)
> Please read comment #4. There is no KDE version.
> 
> KInfoCenter displays the Plasma version, see e.g. screenshot at
> http://i.imgur.com/7zJ5HZr.png

It's a particularly unhelpful comment. There are KDE versions, it's just that KDE's distributed software has been - according to this https://www.kde.org/download/ - separated in to Applications, Desktop, and Framework and so now there are versions for all of these. 

So yes with hostile pedantry one can claim "There is no KDE version." truthfully. But also truthfully there are KDE versions, just that there is no single KDE version as the [KDE] software has been separated out and now several version numbers are needed to specify the full nature of the KDE software installed.

$ sudo apt show plasma-workspace libkf5coreaddons5 | grep -E "Package|Version"

will give the Plasma Workspace and KDE framework (KF) version numbers eg on a Kubuntu system.

Aside: TBH, that kde.org/download/ page is one of the worst web pages I've seen, the homepage offers a big call to action "get KDE software" and that page offers the casual explorer nothing. If you ignore the big button that promises downloads and instead follow a news item from the homepage (eg https://dot.kde.org/2016/07/05/kde-plasma-57) then you'll find that you get download links with version numbers and a tiny bit of visual design to help guide you. It looks designed to prevent people from installing KDE.
Comment 14 Christoph Feck 2017-04-20 23:35:43 UTC
*** Bug 378381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***