https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440244
--- Comment #7 from Dashon <dashonww...@pm.me> --- (In reply to Thiago Sueto from comment #6) > So, from what I understand, this is ultimately a downstream issue: if a > package is missing that prevents the video from running, the video just > doesn't show up / loads endlessly. Particularly problematic for example if > you use only flatpaks for videos and don't actually have codecs installed > system wide. > > Perhaps we could have a cleaner solution by showing a message after a given > timeout? > > Like: after 15 seconds, if the video is not loaded, show a Label saying "The > preview took too long to run. [ ? ]", with the [ ? ] being a > ContextualHelpButton saying something like "Your system might be missing > essential packages needed to show this preview. Please check with your > distribution." > > Then we'd have the necessary software mentioned in > https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations, and point > distros to that to fix things for their users. Makes sense, it would certainly help and prevent this issue from cropping up due to user / distro error. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
