So, the ability to set things related to maintenance perfectly fits the target once it replaces the Manjaro Settings Manager.
I would enjoy a lot if you can add as many options as possible.
It’s very wise for a developer to define were any information needs to be set up. Central place? fragment places? redundant places?
Due to the modular philosophy for linux I see the tendency of fragmentation and command lines, but if a system like Manjaro can do something for integration like central places and GUI, it will benefit a lot of users, mainly the ones that don’t know or don’t care how linux works, they only needs easy way to use their personal computer. I’m using Manjaro/Linux, less than 1 year and I can’t differentiate the Job Manjaro does from the Job Plama team does in terms of system integration. I think from users perspective all the requests will come to Manjaro, and Manjaro team manage with other teams.
Let me use car for instance, if you have a car from specific Brand and if you have problem or suggestion, you will contact the dealer for that Brand, because that Brand integrate the whole system (CAR), think about going in the dealer and they saying to you:
The audio is not our responsibility, please, contact Siemens
The tire is not our responsibility, please contact Goodyear
The driveline is not our responsibility, please contact Dana
Customers expects that who integrates the system will response for all the system, and manage things internally. I added this because someone already asked me to open thread to KDE.
Regarding basic information, you maybe could do a survey to identify for different users what they understand as basic information. Sometimes people buy pre build PC and want to know/confirm what hardware they are made, ordinary people may don’t need too much detail about the hardware but CPU model, motherboard model and others are basic. Additionally, if my Ethernet/wireless works with 4 different speeds, what is the current speed of my network? if I mouse-over at the network icon in the system tray I can’t see my current speed, I need to click on it, click to drop the menu and then click in details. It may worth to have this information redundant in the MPC.
Why not use the KDE Notification area in the system tray for notifications? fragmenting notifications to the MCP will benefit the user experience?