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About About Windows

This is an issue hopefully unifying our proposals for about pages in Kirigami (and the rest of the KDE). Why is this in kirigami-addons? Because that's probably going to be the final resting place for Kirigami About Pages :-)

There are a couple of different issues at play here:

  • There are now three different about pages/windows in KDE (as far as I know), we have the KXMLGUI one, the Kirigami one, and the Kirigami Add-ons one. They are all in regular use somewhere.

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(KXMLGUI)

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(Kirigami)

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(Add-ons)

  • Previously, "About KDE" only existed in KXMLGUI form, but added to Add-ons. It does not exist in Kirigami.
  • We sometimes want to put "About KDE" next to "About Application" but sometimes not. Currently it's hidden inside of the "About Application" menu in Add-ons underneath everything. @olib mentioned that this might be hard to find depending on how many authors/maintainers are listed. Some applications like NeoChat are fine, but applications like Kate have several authors.

I have some questions that I want to collect consensus for. If you don't happen to maintain or work on a relevant application, I would still like to hear your input as a user:

  1. Should the KXMLGUI version be changed? It's proposed that we eventually unify the style of About Page, @ngraham I think was the person who suggested that information gets lost in the tabs. The goal is not to literally copy the Kirigami Add-ons version into KXMLGUI, but to make the style of about window more consistent between our traditional widgets applications and our Kirigami ones.
  2. What features (if any) should we add to the Add-ons version to make it more suitable? We'll definitely have to make concessions somewhere with the author and "thank you" fields, if we were to adopt a similar style for use by the bigger applications.
  3. Are you okay with the current layout of the Add-ons version? Would you prefer a different organizational style, like swiping or tabs? Keep in mind that we need to take into account that this would also be used on a mobile device.
  4. Where should "About KDE" be kept? Should we keep the standard of putting it next to "About Application" in the menu, settings, what have you - or should it be more hidden? Currently it depends on being put inside of a StackView, but it's integration into plasma-welcome brought up some issues with this navigation and asked for the ability to put it into a separate menu entry. Being able to open it separately easily solves this issue.
  5. What should we do about Kirigami.AboutPage? It's currently in limbo, because the original reason for it's removal is "to move to where KAboutData lives (KCoreAddons)". I personally want to move everything to the Add-ons version, but I'd like some second opinions if there's any blockers to it's removal I'm not aware of.

@teams/vdg

Edited by Joshua Goins