On Monday 13 Jul 2009 09:54:40 Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Samstag 11 Juli 2009 schrieb Dean Hilkewich:
The drop of KDE 3 is a very good example. Once in a while someone comes around arguing that dropping KDE 3 is a bad idea and KDE4 is much worse, ... - if invited to maintain KDE:KDE3 -> silence.
Unfortunately a lot of us are not programmers so cant maintain stuff other than very rudementry stuff . That said it does not take away the fact that the dropping of KDE3 was a bad bad move IF KDE4 had been released in a somewhat more user friendly condition then maybe the reception may not have been quite as hostile as it was . As i had said right form the start the method of release was wrong . That said KDE4 i just about starting to show usefull but still lots of gripes one being the lack of clear info on what repos are and are not needed to update to the latest KDE4.3 (that one is still bugging the life out of me) how when you ask a simple question can someone find so many ways to wriggle out of giving a direct answer it beats me he must be an MP .
Sure some features need to be done by it's maintainers, e.g. disabling beagle by default is done easily by everyone but still the maintainers should be convinced by arguments not by one line patches. Same goes for pulseaudio and the like. I don't have any sound problems on factory though, so I wonder why pulseaudio is still a problem to some.
Greetings, Stephan
Do you not think that some of these so called features should maybe have NOT been included to start with when they were/are so bug ridden . You would think someone would install and run the stuff to check thru it before actually sticking it out for release (all be it a strangley named Alpha release) there should still be a certain amount of QA carried out to check that the stuff actually meets reasonable standards of reliability and usability Pete .