KDE, and it's related apps, is an interesting one. For a long time you could get the version info from a menu item (Help>About or something) in any of the K apps. But then they changed it to give no version info ... then the bug report tool asks up front what version you're using ...
One of the great things with Steam when I started running it on Linux was it's debugging info that gathered details of your system so you didn't have to.
> But then they changed it to give no version info
This is still the case. Every KDE application has the menu entries Help → About $APPNAME and Help → About KDE which both show the relevant version numbers. I'm overwhelmingly certain this feature never went away because I am on a rolling distro and upgraded through pretty much all versions and I figure I would have noticed the absence of these menu entries.
> then the bug report tool asks up front what version you're using
That's incorrect. The menu entry Help → Report Bug… opens a dialog with version information that has a button Launch Bug Report Wizard which produces a link like e.g. `https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=kon...`. Consequently in the bugtracker, the available information is already filled in.
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By the way, this post is an example for the bullshit asymmetry principle, and I resent that I had to spend a magnitude more time to correct your misinformation than it took you to produce it. Please be a better netizen.
Ok, I'm a 20y user of KDE, and a massive supporter. I still got the app version from apt (apt-get at the time) and framework version and still submitted bug reports - after registering and installing symbols to get decent backtraces. I even helped some people improve their forum posts by showing them how to get the relevant version numbers.
There was a change, it was unhelpful. There were reasons, it was to do with changes in versioning on plasma frameworks - I could look up the details, but that isn't really important a few years hence.
The jist of my comment is that structures within an application can help us non-programmers to make useful bug submissions; I cited 2 examples from my real life experience.
Hopefully we agree on the basic premise I set out at least?
One of the great things with Steam when I started running it on Linux was it's debugging info that gathered details of your system so you didn't have to.