https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429331
--- Comment #4 from Luiz Angelo De Luca <luizl...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #3) > KDE is a community. I'm sure we'll not report anything ;) > Plasma will, but unfortunately the userbase of Plasma is muuuuch too varied > to report that kind of data. I'm still from the times where kde was a thing, not a community... Old habits die hard. > The problem with reporting the lines you mention is that 99% of people won't > know what they mean or what to do about them which is why we break the > entire affair down to a binary state of either everything is grand or > everything is not. Which has the disadvantage that potentially failing disks > slip under the radar if the overall status says ok even when it isn't. HDD dying process is a little more subtle than "run, I'm gonna explode!". A read error with a msg like "it might be a one time error like a power outage. However, if this error keeps reoccurring, it indicates that part of your data in your HDD is not readable anymore". This is something a user might understand. It could show previous tests or error messages to let the user decide if a new HDD is needed. > At the same time replicating what smartd already does and tracking report > trends to discern problems seems a bit useless given, well, smartd already > does just that ^^ It generates the error log. However, that error will never reach a gui-only user. That's what I'm suggesting: exposing "Hey, a read error happened!" to gui users. If smarttools guys does not have a good heuristic, it is not plasma-disk that will implement one. But plasma-disk could expose and "translate" some errors and let the user decide. > We could maybe have a tiny hint icon somewhere in kinfocenter that there > were problems in the report data so the user can look at it and/or choose to > err on the side of caution and replace the disk. If all last self-tests finished with an error, it should be something to report with a big red flashing icon. Not something subtle inside kinfocenter. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
