Plasma 5.18 includes a system reporting tool, it is optional but we should all activate it

Plasma 5.18 User Feedback

In recent years, KDE developers are improving their software a lot, very fast. Initially, they add new features that they think will improve the user experience, but they also listen to the community. Still, there is still a lot that you cannot imagine and that something has to do with how your software works on all types of computers. To further improve the user experience, plasma 5.18 will introduce a new system reporting tool similar to the one already available in other operating systems such as Ubuntu.

Just like explains Aleix Pol in an article published last weekend, it is important to know how we use an operating system or what happens inside it. The latter is important, especially when we are experiencing problems. Starting this February, KDE will include a tool that will collect information just as the one available in Ubuntu does, with the difference that KDE will be disabled by default.

Plasma 5.18 will collect information to improve the software

The information that this system will collect will be totally anonymous and unable to identify the user, or so the KDE Community promises. In addition, they also promise that only information that can be used to improve the operating system or KDE software will be released, so I would personally recommend enabling it to any Plasma user.

If I am correct, the option can be activated from the "User comments" section that already appears in the Plasma 5.18.0 beta, currently numbered 5.17.90. At the time of this writing, the system is still not working, or at least not in the KDE neon Test Edition that I have used for testing. In Pol's original article it appears in English as "User Feedback" and in it we can see a slider that allows us to choose how much or how much information we want to share.

Will you activate the new Plasma 5.18 reporting system to improve KDE software?


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  1.   truko22 said

    Interesting, I would definitely activate it 😀