https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449261
--- Comment #7 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> --- (In reply to WS from comment #6) > Don't try to think about the breaking the system in a technical sense, try > to think about what a one dot user considers to be a usable system. Again, I > mentioned Dolphin as an example: A two dot user would probably figure out > what it is and will not uninstall it without reason, and even if they did, > they would probably figure out how to get it back (or an alternative). > > A one dot user would either see the installed list as too imposing, or > wouldn't understand what Dolphin is, if they uninstalled I don't think they > would be able to reinstall it without external help. > > My idea of having a category called "System", made from shipped by default > packages, isn't to protect tech enthusiastic users from ending with a borked > system, it is to prevent one dot users from making preventable mistakes, by > labelling those stuff as "System" would at least warn them. There is actually a "System" category that pretty much all apps add themselves to (or not); it's just a keyword in the app's .desktop file. This is a separate thing from what apps are installed by default by the distro. Conceivably we could group all such apps into their own category in the Installed view. Not to prevent removing them, but to simply separate them from other apps to provide this hint to users that maybe they shouldn't remove them unless they really know what they're doing. Then it would simply be up to apps and distros to give these apps the appropriate "System" keyword in their .desktop files, which is easy to fix. What do you think about that? > I didn't mean Discover, but the GUI app made by the distro. The thing is, Discover doesn't have a way to distinguish this app. So there isn't really a way to give it special treatment in the UI. However if that app is marked with the "System" keyword, it would appear in the "System" category in the installed view, should we implement the above idea. > Also pretty sure it is the Kernel itself, that one can be blamed on the > distro, still weird tho. Could you attach a screenshot of it? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
