Should kio-extras be made a Dolphin dependency/recommend?

[chimak111]

A user of Ubuntu 18.04 installed Dolphin using sudo apt install dolphin. However, the pane to enable previews was empty. Installing kio-extras fixed that.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1170...ail-how-to-fix

OTOH, if the user also installed gwenview, then kio-extras would have come along.

If it's thought suitable, kio-extras could be added as a dependency/recommend for dolphin.

$ apt rdepends kio-extras
kio-extras
Reverse Depends:
Breaks: plasma-workspace (<< 4:5.3.2+git20150710.0210)
Replaces: plasma-workspace (<< 4:5.3.2+git20150710.0210)
Recommends: plasma-workspace
Breaks: plasma-workspace (<< 4:5.3.2+git20150710.0210)
Recommends: plasma-desktop
Replaces: plasma-workspace (<< 4:5.3.2+git20150710.0210)
Recommends: plasma-workspace
Breaks: kio (<< 4:5.0.95-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10~ppa6)
Recommends: plasma-desktop
Depends: kubuntu-full
Depends: kubuntu-desktop
Replaces: kio (<< 4:5.0.95-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10~ppa6)
Recommends: gwenview
Recommends: kdevelop
12:15 PM ~ $

[claydoh]

file a bug report on dolphin in launchpad so that devs might see this better.....though looking at it, dolphin in 19.04 already has it as a recommends, so the issue has been fixed. Not sure if suddenly adding new software dependencies is something that is normally appropriate/allowed for an LTS.

[chimak111]

file a bug report on dolphin in launchpad so that devs might see this better...though looking at it, dolphin in 19.04 already has it as a recommends, so the issue has been fixed. Not sure if suddenly adding new software dependencies is something that is normally appropriate/allowed for an LTS.

Yes, I too see it's there. I guess filing a bug for 18.04 doesn't seem that important.

BTW, kudos to the devs for a great job on 19.04. I'm downloading a bunch of updates ATM. Smooth!

This is from my VM:

Operating System: Kubuntu 19.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.61.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2
Kernel Version: 5.0.0-27-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processor: 1 × Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Memory: 3.9 GiB of RAM