Is KDE really usable?

[Bram Schoenmakers]

Op dinsdag 24 oktober 2006 19:41, schreef chris:

Hi,

> From all that I know I can only assume that it's the bug reports which
> maybe aren't precise and / or numerous enough. And what precision should
> there be in such a bug? Isn't the debuglog that KDE's crash handler creates
> the important stuff?

It generates *some* important stuff, but not all. The user should describe 
what was done in order to get that crash.

> If so, how knowledgeable a user should someone be to 
> report those bugs?

I think it would be sufficient if you get beyond the stage "help, Konqueror 
crashes, here's my backtrace:  <useless backtrace here>"

> Some of the copy /
> move / drag'n'drop crashes might be related to kio_file or something
> similar instead of Konqueror itself.

You hit the point. A rough estimation would be that about 95% of the crashes 
are caused by something outside of the Konqueror code base. Which involves 
many thousands lines of code, developed by many different people working on 
very different parts of KDE. You see, it's really difficult to keep the total 
package stable. That's the reason I see no point in replacing Konqueror 
because you'll end up with the same problems again.

Kind regards,

-- 
Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

GPG - 0x4890861528516B16
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/attachments/20061024/7515b597/attachment.pgp