Massive Konqueror Regression

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 12 August 2005 09:17, David van Hoose wrote:
> I will be happy to answer any questions.

you've said that konqueror has become less useful for you due to "failing on 
certain pages". that was the key message i got out of your email.

but answering questions may not be the most helpful thing you can do for KDE. 
if you can become an information producer you can become a valuable asset to 
the process of development (which is the purpose and theme of this particular 
mailing list).

i'll ballance that out for fairness and avoid discouragement to those who put 
time and effort into these things by saying that for many others, 3.3 and 3.4 
were wonderful leaps forward. for instance, it actually works _better_ with 
my web banking solution. part of the reason it does so, though, is that i 
submitted test cases for people to work on and kept up with the progress on 
them.

would it be possible for you to describe in detail what is failing and perhaps 
distill the pages it fails on to succinct test cases (small html files that 
show the problem clearly)? this does take time and effort. i know because 
i've done it and watched others do it. this is also why it's so valuable.

and in my experience you get a lot further by presenting these in a factual 
manner rather than adding personal analysis and commentary such as "KDE 
development must stop". it distracts from what you are trying to say and 
diverts effort from the solutions you are seeking.

> KDE's development needs to be stopped and as many 
> 3.4.x releases need to be released

there's something of a contradiction in this sentence ;) you can help 
development progress, though ...

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Aaron J. Seigo
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