Bug 517630 - Inconsistent usage of "device", "computer", "system" in restart strings
Summary: Inconsistent usage of "device", "computer", "system" in restart strings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: Updates (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.6.2
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2026-03-16 00:09 UTC by John Veness
Modified: 2026-04-04 01:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.7.0
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Description John Veness 2026-03-16 00:09:15 UTC
SUMMARY
A small papercut - the Discover UI seems unable to decide whether to refer to a device, a computer, or a system, when it asks to restart.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install some updates that require a restart
2. Look in the main Discover UI Updates tab, and hover the mouse over the System Tray icon

OBSERVED RESULT
Main UI says:
Updates will be installed after the *system* is restarted. You can keep using the *system* if you're not ready to restart yet.

System Tray tooltip says:
Click to restart the *device*
*Computer* needs to restart

EXPECTED RESULT
Consistent usage of one of the words system, device, or computer, not all three!

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260312
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.5-1-default (64-bit)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is in British English, by the way.

I'll let someone else decide which of the three words to use (although I think "system" is best).

Regarding the tooltip in the System Tray, to be honest "Click to restart the system. System needs to restart" (if that is what you would change it to) is still rather an odd message, especially as it doesn't say why and doesn't mention updates at all. Maybe "Click to restart the system. System needs to restart to install updates" or something.
Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2026-03-16 12:03:49 UTC
Can confirm

Operating System: KDE Linux 2026-03-16
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.25.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.6-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2026-04-01 00:44:03 UTC
Git commit 3e29a42d260b8ded50fa671616ed87ef98c20c4e by Nate Graham.
Committed on 01/04/2026 at 00:41.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

Standardize on "system" terminology

Right now we use the words "device", "computer", and "system"
interchangeably. Let's standardize on "system" since it's the most
universally applicable and usable everywhere.
FIXED-IN: 6.7.0

M  +1    -1    kcm/ui/main.qml
M  +1    -1    libdiscover/backends/SnapBackend/SnapTransaction.cpp
M  +1    -1    notifier/DiscoverNotifier.cpp
M  +1    -1    notifier/NotifierItem.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/3e29a42d260b8ded50fa671616ed87ef98c20c4e