What I have seen in the last 4-5 years of using Linux is that there seems to
be a reluctance to let some apps go. I see a lot of the same apps on the menu
tree that appear to have changed very little and often crash.
As for my menu editting, I suppose I will go to the newest version. I don't
expect much so there's plenty of room for surprise.
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From: James Knott
Joe Polk wrote:
I would agree. One huge complaint I had with RHat and to some extent still have with many distro's is QA is that you can do a fresh load, standard "accept all defaults" install of so many distro's and somethings just don't work. By that I mean, clicking on icon does nothing. I'm sure errors paste back to the console but to the X user, nothing happens. If they don't work, they shouldn't be there. The idea of bundling everything in by default is not good. Someone should be sitting in a room and coming out saying, "All this sh*t don't work." Great! Let's pull that. In the case of menu editting and such, then the answer is don't release it! I recall a Gnome release once that completely removed the menu editting tool, but they released it anyway. Why would you? hehe
I used to do integration testing at IBM, and I'd have been fired for passing off what I see in SuSE. In my deptartment, we put together standard desktop systems, for IBM Canada, on OS/2 (my specialty) and Windows 95 & NT. We all also had applications, which we supported on all systems. We had weekly build meetings, where we discussed problems & fixes etc. If something couldn't be fixed, or a reasonable work around developed, the app was pulled. We also had a lot of communications with the developers, both within and outside IBM, regarding problems with the various apps. Incidentally, one thing I noticed was that problems with OS/2 & apps were very rare. Windows 95 caused most of the problems and NT, while far better than W95, wasn't anywhere near as good as OS/2.
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