https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390959
Bug ID: 390959
Summary: Consider suppressing GUI display of non-fatal,
non-user-actionable warnings
Product: Discover
Version: 5.12.2
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: discover
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Discover is very "chatty" in that it displays a lot of GUI PassiveNotifications
regarding its internal state.
This can be important for fatal errors that require intervention, but for
non-fatal errors and warnings, they don't actually help the user because
they're generally not actionable unless you are a developer, and that's not
Discover's primary target audience (see
https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Muon_Discover#Personas).
Displaying non-actionable status information reduces the user's confidence in a
program's ability to manage its own affairs, and makes it seem needy and
fragile.
I'm thinking specifically about the following common messages:
- Invalid knsrc messages (Bug 388101 and Bug 390922)
- Non-fatal Flatpak warnings when the requested operation succeeds anyway (Bug
390217 and Bug 390425)
- Redundant message after cancelling password prompt (Bug: 388076)
These messages may be actionable for developers, but they are confusing and
frightening for users. I propose that we make these messages log to the console
and don't display them in the GUI.
Benefit for users:
- Increased confidence in Discover
Benefit for developers:
- A whole class of bug reports and user frustration issues disappears
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