STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start some live USB that has Discover preinstalled or just 2. Start Discover without connecting to internet. OBSERVED RESULT Empty 'Featured' apps list appears EXPECTED RESULT For example 'Installed' apps list appears SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Developer Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Qt Version: 5.11.2 Kernel Version: 4.15.0-42-generic
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ How about we show a message saying "please get an internet connection"? It's not like discover will be very useful until there's information to fetch.
(In reply to Aleix Pol from comment #1) > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > How about we show a message saying "please get an internet connection"? > > It's not like discover will be very useful until there's information to > fetch. It seems stupid, but that would really help. The very fact that Discover isn't very useful without an internet connection is why it would be nice to display that requirement/limitation to the user right in the app itself when it's not available.
Git commit ede4a7c75cb8c26e39d0f24de78ff1f777d83e8e by Aleix Pol. Committed on 13/12/2018 at 18:56. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Show an error if we couldn't find any resources from the featured apps M +5 -3 discover/FeaturedModel.cpp M +9 -0 discover/FeaturedModel.h M +8 -0 discover/qml/BrowsingPage.qml https://commits.kde.org/discover/ede4a7c75cb8c26e39d0f24de78ff1f777d83e8e
Git commit 131071136f56604403ec2fae15d17e07c95670aa by Nate Graham. Committed on 14/08/2019 at 15:28. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Improve "No internet connection!" error message Summary: Old message was a bit unclear. Hopefully this is better. Added an icon too to help get the message across, and because icons are pretty. :) Test Plan: Disable internet connection and launch Discover: {F7247077, size=full} Reviewers: #discover_software_store, #vdg, apol, leinir Reviewed By: leinir Subscribers: GB_2, rooty, pino, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17598 M +14 -3 discover/qml/BrowsingPage.qml https://commits.kde.org/discover/131071136f56604403ec2fae15d17e07c95670aa