Please add a tool to let users rate kde apps

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Fri Jan 26 14:09:04 CET 2007


Am Freitag, 26. Januar 2007 13:51 schrieb Juergen Pfennig:
> Hello everybody,
> I write this in the hope that Adriaan will not find it off-topic ...
>
> I'm a KDE user (and a little bit a contributor) since long time. In most
> cases the app quality got better over time but there are still a lot of
> apps that cannot be recommend for an office desktop system (kmail for
> example). Such apps typically only grow along the feature axis but loose
> stability and/or performance. Someone new to KDE cannot know this in
> advance. This might lead to considerable disappointment, lost time and lost
> money.
>
> What about introducing a KDE-offical rating system that tells users if an
> app is stable, and if it can be recommended for a production environment?
> This could help real-world users to select the right applications for their
> business and could also help developers.
A rating is nonsense IMO. kmail works perfectly for my wife, it works 
excellent for our assistents, but crashes sometimes for me when I fetch into 
folders > 4000 mails. Is that an A or B?

Greetings, Stephan


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