In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/comment-page-1/#comment-40275">Drogosław</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yes, we plan to make the aggregated data public, for just that reason!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/comment-page-1/#comment-40274">Drogosław</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's coming along! You can follow the development progress at <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/union/-/commits" rel="nofollow ugc">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/union/-/commits</a>. Currently it's progressing towards an alpha release.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Our telemetry UX will be the same: people will see a dialog window asking them to participate in the survey, and in there, they’ll see what data will be collected.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yeah, the problem was that despite one's will to turn it on, one had to manually enter the preferences of each affected app, find the necessary option and turn it on – and some apps had it, some didn't.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>That's too much to ask for to have a representative sample.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Advanced users (like I) would probably prefer a centralized place to tweak telemetry to their liking, but for the wide range of users, a popup is the best way to go, I guess.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What makes the mentioned Steam Hardware Survey even more successful is the fact that the statistics gathered this way are detailed and totally public. This makes them discussed around in the (social) media which builds up their recognition and reputation. I wish KDE went this way too. The Linux world lacks statistics even more than the PC gaming world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As for the theming, how's the effort to unify the existing engines going?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm waiting for the day that <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490133" rel="nofollow ugc">my (un)favorite bug</a> (that you personally already remember about, I think, since I keep moaning about it :D) can be easily fixed. Also, this would help the community in developing unofficial themes, which makes it related to the KDE Store issue.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm glad to hear that there's been some buzz around "KDE Store"/"KDE Look". As I've stated numerous times, it provides a terrible user experience and really needs to be designed from ground up (I happened to be mentioned by Phoronix once with this claim :D).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[…] and the place being sadly flooded with low-effort AI-created junk</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Well, it's been flooded with low-effort man-made junk since I remember, long before the ongoing AI craze. No moderation means no quality control.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The current situation hurts not only users who can download stuff that does "Very Bad
" things (even if that's not what the author wanted to!), but also creators of high-quality themes, addons, icon sets etc. who struggle to get attention among the junk that surrounds them. It makes the ecosystem around KDE/Plasma rather small.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hopefully, something will come out of it!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...