To me these labels suggest stuff like violence and adult situations. But we use them just to indicate the highest level of rated content. The results are often nonsensical. For example "checking for the latest app version" makes the app say "Mild content", while offering text, audio, or video chat is "Intense content". I don't think they're very accurate or useful. Maybe we can just remove them.
Created attachment 162436 [details] Is this really mild content?
Created attachment 162437 [details] Is this really intense content?
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/890
Git commit 8377940074a31a6e0af94eb739210b5fe16ae6b4 by Nate Graham. Committed on 02/08/2024 at 23:39. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. ApplicationPage: Simplify content rating display Currently we display an age rating along with a textual description such as "Mild content" or "Intense content". The textual description has been problematic due to difficulties translating it, and also mismatches between what the text suggests and what triggered it. For example "Uncontrolled chat functionality between users" kicks it into "Intense content", but the word "intense" conjures up ideas of violence, sexuality, etc. Let's drop the text and let the age rating speak for itself. @teams/vdg FIXED-IN: 6.2.0 | Before | After | | ------ | ----- | |  |  | |  |  | M +5 -15 discover/qml/ApplicationPage.qml M +0 -58 libdiscover/appstream/AppStreamUtils.cpp M +0 -2 libdiscover/appstream/AppStreamUtils.h M +0 -10 libdiscover/backends/FlatpakBackend/FlatpakResource.cpp M +0 -2 libdiscover/backends/FlatpakBackend/FlatpakResource.h M +0 -10 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/AppPackageKitResource.cpp M +0 -2 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/AppPackageKitResource.h M +0 -10 libdiscover/resources/AbstractResource.cpp M +0 -10 libdiscover/resources/AbstractResource.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/8377940074a31a6e0af94eb739210b5fe16ae6b4