I just can't fathom why people jump in and defend dropping very useful features just because THEY don't use it. This is just wrong headed, arrogant, and inconsiderate. Where did that attitude come from, and how did it infect the Linux community?
OK, look at from a totally different perspective... not saying this is the right perspective or way of working, but it is one I have seen in my time in software development. Developer X is working on a project, and in the process tries to weed out what he/she perceives as excess stuff that as far as he/she can see is not used. In the process they sometimes remove stuff that a segment of the user base actually do use. It happens. The people jumping in and saying they don't use a feature is simple statement of fact in their way of working. Those of us that don't use a feature don't realize or know that it is so useful to another segment of the userbase. It is not a case of being arrogant it is just how we use the software. For the hide taskar buttons, at least in my case, I had no idea it was such an important feature for some people. If the devs removed it and never put it back in, I wouldn't have noticed. Obviously some people did notice though. But.. say there is some feature of KDE3.. call it Feature Z that no one used. It was added at some point because someone thought it might be useful. If it is removed in the next generation of KDE, is that a bad thing? Isn't that part of cleaning up the codebase? Clearly though, hide taskbar buttons are not a Feature Z that should be removed as someone may have thought at some point... so we put in a request to have it restored. Problem solved. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org