[Konsole-devel] [Bug 175140] konsole -profile functionality from kde 3.5.x

[orionbelt2 at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175140





--- Comment #24 from  <orionbelt2 gmail com>  2012-02-21 03:11:38 ---
Hi again Jekyll,

Many thanks to you and Kurt. Please keep up the good work with konsole! Nobody
here made personal accusations, we just deplore a bad situation, and what you
and Kurt do is strive to improve it. You have our gratitude, not our anger!

Perhaps i should have expressed myself better. I do understand that developers
choose which KDE projects they want to contribute to. But apparently most
prefer to contribute to projects they consider "cooler" than the likes of
konsole. Fair enough --their choice. But shouldn't KDE's governing council have
taken this imbalance into account when deciding that KDE4 would be an almost
complete rewrite? KDE is not just any component, it's one of the major
(inter)faces of Linux. Users expect things to get better when upgrading, and
they get disappointed when they get worse. I submit that a terminal console is
more fundamental to a Unix environment than, say, amarok. If only you and Kurt
were able to do so much, then one or two extra devs might have been able to
bring konsole to KDE3-level of features by now. Could KDE management have more
actively encouraged devs to contribute to the likes of konsole? I dunno. All i
know is that at version 4.8 there's several basic packages that are still
problematic, and lots of users and distros still sticking to KDE3 --for a
reason, and despite the nice new things that KDE4 undoubtedly introduced.
Please take this as a constructive comment from your user base about the
direction that we would like to see things move, not as a negative criticism.
And sure, it would be nicer if we all contributed code than opinions, but not
all of us can contribute code to all open source projects!

Since this is being off topic, i will not post any more replies. I hope that at
least the spirit of my comment has been understood. Thanks again :)

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