Trusting content on the KDE Store

[Konqi]

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/

[janr]

Suggestion from my subjective POV: Maybe change the colour of the warning message field in Get Hot New Stuff to red instead of blue, and change the icon to a warning sign instead of an “info sign”?
The way this looks to me now is as if it’s something purely informational or some help text, and not like a warning about a possible risk of data loss or compromise.

[bedna]

Please see here:

WARNING: Global themes and widgets created by 3rd party developers for Plasma can and will run arbitrary code. You are encouraged to exercise extreme caution when using these products

A user has had a bad experience installing a global theme on Plasma and lost personal data. Global themes do not only change the look of Plasma, but also the behavior. To do this they run code, and this code can be faulty, as in the case mentioned above. The same goes for widgets and plasmoids. We are calling on the community to help us locate and quarantine defective software by using the “Report” buttons available on each item in the KDE Store. Please see the image below to locate them. […