On 2014-02-27 07:15 (GMT+0100) Luca Beltrame composed:
Felix Miata composed:
Even so, I hear you. With post-v3 KDE upstream, it seems next, bling and new users are always more important than polish, maintaining function, and
As a person that's more upstream than downstream, and regularly does user support on "hot" (in the sense of heavily criticized) parts of the KDE applications such as PIM, I find these sweeping generalizations off-putting, to say the least.
KDE could hardly be as good as it is without a lot of good people putting in quality effort, but do you really not expect such on occasion from long time users when: 1-more than a few bugs never get any apparent or relevant developer attention, much less fixed (e.g. 120533, 8 years old; 262695 3 years old; 297217 23 months old) 2-complaints about controversial paradigm changes without option to preserve prior behavior fall on deaf ears (e.g. 325286:snapto), or the controversial new behavior becomes the automatically displacing default (maximize/tile by dragging window to edge; no sound on login/logout) 3-KDE3 features never implemented in KDE4 (e.g. 158556:manual panel hiding, with option for button *only* on right end of panel) 4-major foundational changes produce arbitrary halts to any possibility of fixing problems before the new underpinnings migrate into the stable product (especially when new problem arose right before cutoff) Many grateful users of openSUSE and other popular distros remain content with what ain't broke not getting "improved" in KDE3 and TDE. I remain hopeful that someday KDE post-3 can become something I can unconditionally recommend. I expect that would take a lot more polishing and old bug resolution than I expect will ever happen without KDE leadership pushing people to spend more time fixing and less time being creative. Meanwhile I recommend KDE3 or TDE often, install KDE3 instead of KDE4 on about half my Factory installations, and KDE3 remains the only DE running 24/7 on Linux here. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org