On Thu, January 8, 2009 17:41, David C. Rankin wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
ROFLCOPTER!!! People, you're discussing frakkin' wallpapers! That can hardly be called a major usability issue. If you want to rant, rant about poor support for screenreaders, for the visually impaired.
Amedee,
From a product management standpoint, the point is much larger than any one nit or application. The point is the apparent total incompetence on the part of some to be able to manage simple parts of what heretofore has been a perfectly functioning and working linux distribution without breaking it. The second point is the apparent total lack of oversight or meaningful QA to make sure that the simple stuff isn't released until it is ready and doesn't go out the door broken.
That doesn't sound like Suse. Sounds more like Debian stable.
There is no excuse for putting out backgrounds that don't work or sysconfig editors that don't edit or software search functions that don't search or abort functions that don't abort or yast interfaces that are so squished you can't read the fields, and the list goes on and on with 11.1.
When there are unexplainable problems with the very basic and rudimentary parts of a release, it calls into question the quality, fitness and attention to detail of the entire release and makes you wonder "did somebody turn openSuSE over to a bunch of teenagers to manage?" There is no excuse for patent incompetence.
Now you are describing problems of Ubuntu, and the reasons why I switched to OpenSuse.
I know software releases have growing pains and I accept that. I am more than happy to devote time to helping fix new applications and new functionality to make the distro better. It is just very frustrating to have to waste all the time, energy and effort, fixing things that used to work perfectly but are now broken.
That is effort wasted fixing things that never should have been broken in the first place or should not have been released until an adult had QA'ed the code. When you are wasting effort fixing problems that shouldn't exist, you have lost all of that positive effort that should have been used to add capability or new function, but instead was used to fix a screw up.
If you don't want to waste time and energy, don't report your bugs at your distribution if you are certain that the bugs aren't distribution related but application related. In the case of KDE4, OpenSuse isn't to blame. Just report directly to the KDE4 developers and skip the layer of Opensuse. That's what I do. All the time. And I'm getting results. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org