Re: Is this the most useless error message in KDE?

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On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 17:59 +0100, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Friday 18 of March 2016 16:51:02 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 15:07 +0100, Fredy Neeser wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 1.  abrt
> > > > 
> > > > can't answer the other items
> > > > 
> > > > -- Rex
> > > Regarding the other items, have a look at the ABRT GUI,
> > > which you can find in the KDE menu under
> > > 
> > >   System > Problem Reporting  (Icon with Exclamation Mark)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The tool shows a list of components that recently crashed
> > > and for each of these, among other things
> > > - Version : <component version>
> > > - Reported: {yes, no}
> > I checked that and the only problem reported today was with kde-
> > cli-
> > tools. Since I wasn't using the command line when the error message
> > appeared, I'm still not convinced abrt has anything to do with
> > this.
> > The pop-up doesn't show the usual abrt icon but a sad face that
> > looks
> > like something from KDE. I could be wrong of course, but my point
> > is
> > that an error message the user cannot possibly understand is of no
> > use
> > to anyone.
> This is perfectly reasonable and the message should be improved. The
> problem 
> is that I can't find it. 
> It was about kde-cli-tools, was the message different? Can you please
> take a 
> screenshot when it happens again?

I'll try, but the thing I neglected to mention is that IIRC it stays up
for a few seconds, then disappears on its own, i.e. without waiting to
be dismissed. That's why the text I quoted is an approximation from
memory. It's close but may not be exact.

poc
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