Patch on ksnapshot

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 1:21, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > and Open With into a graphics app and printing from there wouldn't
> > do?
>
> That's obviously many more additional steps.

</obviously>

think about optimizing code: you don't optimize for the case that happens 1% 
of the time if it creates poor performance the rest of the 99% of the time. 
if you have to choose between 1% being ok and 99% being great or 99% being ok 
and 1% being great, what do you pick?

same thing.

if 1% of the people using ksnapshot use it to print and 99% of the people 
don't, then what should we optimize for? if we try and cater to each 1% use 
case we'll end up with a cluttered interface that sucks for 99% or people. 
it's the same phenom when one tries to optimize for only the top 10% of use 
cases in a UI: it ends up sucking for more than 90% of users.

i'm suggesting that for our global user base saying that printer, etc is 
better provided via an external application. yep, it won't be Best for a 
certain small % of our users but it should be Workable and it'll help prevent 
Suckage for the rest.

there are a lot of place in kde where similar application of principles would 
result in noticeable improvement.

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