Martin Schlander said the following on 01/29/2012 05:58 AM:
And the minority which does operate in the way you describe, just get new problems which are (at least) equally troublesome as the minor annoyance they tried to fix in the first place (see most of the traffic on this list or on IRC if you don't believe me).
While 100% accurate that's probably the most unhelpful comment I've seen on the list this month. Of course any - and EVERY release and revision of any software is going to have its bugs and problems. We know that. But the previous post in that part of the thread said:
- finds a problem with something in his current KD 4.7.x - googles for solution - finds "solved in KDE 4.8"
The user has a SPECIFIC problem with a SPECIFIC part of KDE. Not all of KDE, a SPECIFIC PART. It is that SPECIFIC part that is the annoyance and that SPECIFIC part gets fixed in the subsequent release. You can bet there's a lot of KDE the user doesn't use and doesn't care if new bugs emerge in that. He's only interested in the SPECIFIC problem he has with the SPECIFIC part that gets fixed. Any other bugs may be under his radar. Perhaps not, perhaps it is as you say, that its a game of whack-a-mole and another part that is crucial to him has a new and critical bug or a previously less than critical bug becomes critical. But so what? He's just been though that with 4.0...4.7 What he wants is this SPECIFIC problem fixed and fixed right now and its fixed in 4.8 And you know what? 4.8 is current in Fedora; I'm running Fedora and 4.8 on another machine and I'm delighted with it; the problems I have are with Firefox and Thunderbird, not with any party of KDE. KDE is getting better and better, the annoyances are being smoothed out. The guys are doing a fine job! Roll on 4.9! -- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. -- Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org