[kinfocenter] [Bug 387106] Show KDE-Applications version in 'About System'

[Bogdan Mihaila]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387106

--- Comment #2 from Bogdan Mihaila  ---
Hi

> If you need the Dolphin version, use the "About Dolphin" item there.

This is not about getting the Dolphin Version! or any other KDE application's
version but about showing all system relevant versions in one place: Qt,
Plasma, KDE Frameworks, ... KDE Applications
Dolphin was a suggestion from where to retrieve the information for 'KDE
Applications' as it is the most common representative and should be always
installed.

> With the current trend of per-application flatpaks, snaps, or appimages, the 
> variety in installed versions will increase.

Very much aware of that as already  mentioned. However, major distributions
(Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, ...) that still comprise the big share in userbase
do keep the 'KDE Applications' at one common version and advertise that as I
showed with the link to the Kubuntu release announcements. So the solution is
intended for those distributions.

> Distributions that enforce a single version on all applications could just 
> patch that version into the KInfoCenter sources, but Plasma developers will 
> not do it.

Fair enough and you have a point there that it is not Plasma's duty to add that
info but the distributions should add it if they think the 'KDE Applications'
they ship are homogeneous. I guess I'll take this suggestion to the
distributions' trackers instead.

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[kinfocenter] [Bug 387106] Show KDE-Applications version in 'About System'

[Christoph Feck]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387106

Christoph Feck  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
 Resolution|--- |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck  ---
If you need the Dolphin version, use the "About Dolphin" item there. As you
said, every application can have a different version number. Or use Discover to
get an overview of all installed applications including their versions.

With the current trend of per-application flatpaks, snaps, or appimages, the
variety in installed versions will increase.

Distributions that enforce a single version on all applications could just
patch that version into the KInfoCenter sources, but Plasma developers will not
do it.

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