I "like" Mandriva's attitude (Fwd: Re: well-known user folders, a proposal)

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:12, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007 21:11, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:16, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On February 22, 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > 1) isn't the KFileDialog speedbar configurable?
> > >
> > > yes.
> >
> > Sorry, this was basically a sarcastic question :)
> >
> > I was just angry that Mandriva again(!) managed to patch KDE before using
> > the already present customization option.
>
> Chances are that they just didn't know about this option. I'd rather blame
> this on the lack of documentation on KDE's part than on their stupidity.

I don't think they are stupid, but just clumsy. As a Linux vendor they should 
probably know that the upstream projects can be contacted by numerous ways.

In the end the problems appear in our tables. We have to explain to users why 
they just "lost" all their email (Mandriva patching KMail instead of properly 
using the config option), why newly installed programs don't show up in their 
menus (Mandriva breaking the freedesktop.org menu specification by 
introducing incompatible categories and removing support for the offcial 
ones), why newly installed programs show up in GNOME but not in KDE 
(Debian/Kubuntu breaking KDE's compliance with the menu spec), etc.

Don't get me wrong: KDE is free software, it is not only ok, it is encouraged 
to change it to fit your needs, but maybe it would be possible to first check 
if the desired result can be achieved without patching and probably breaking 
other things on the way.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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