On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 15:35, Markus Slopianka <markus.s@kdemail.net> wrote:
On Sonntag 02 Oktober 2011 09:18:33 C wrote:
There seems to be no movement on getting it fixed from the upstream KDE side (if the bug comments are to be believed). Is there anything "we" can do to correct it? Is it worth opening an openSUSE bug against it? (I'm guessing not, but worth asking)
Well, actually upstream is moving. All Plasma widgets are currently in the process of being completely rewritten using QML – including the taskbar. See https://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/
Nice. There is a lot happening in the KDE development world :-) The improvements we are seeing on the user-land side of things are really noticeable lately.
So unless bugs are huge showstoppers, I don't think it's worth to fix old code.
Fair enough. It's frustrating to see openSUSE 12.1 being released almost the same time as the 4.8 betas (sometime in November).. knowing the fixes are in the 4.8 branch, and seeing the very obvious visual bugs in the 4.7 release. This particular bug is ugly and annoying - and it really is one that new users pick up on right away.
In the meantime there are alternative taskbars for Plasma. The one I use is Fancy Tasks: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Fancy+Tasks?content=99737 It's in openSUSE's repos. I have configured it to be almost exactly like the default taskbar with the single exception that Fancy Tasks allows disabling window switching via mouse wheel.
OK, that's nice and all... but it's not what we are apparently shipping. We are shipping a KDE4 with a very visible known bug that most users will encounter in their day to day use. This is not something that affects only a small group of users. My question is, what can we do to fix it? Is there something that one of the openSUSE KDE wizards can patch on the 4.7 release we will ship? It's not a show stopper, but it's ugly and right there in front of every user who will try out KDE4 on 12.1. I'm sure that the reviewers will pick up on it right away. Something small like this can make our 12.1 release look rather sloppy :-( C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org