[Scott Wheeler]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 18:00, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > There is a funny inconsistency in the above; our target group of users
> > don't update every other week so any changes in the rc files will only
> > happen on major upgrades which in practice will happen ones every 18
> > months. Effectively ruling out your 'problem' above.
>
> First, patchlevel releases take place about every two month, so the
> persistence problem appears much more frequently.
>
> Second, it doesn't make a difference whether your settings are lost once a
> week or once a year. Otoh, losing them infrequently is even worse because
> the user is caught by surprise then. He won't immediately miss the
> functionality, but he is forced to "rediscover" all points of customisation
> he performed and forgot to remember over the purported last 18 months (or
> whatever timespan is deemed to be typical for the "actual user").
>
> As the "loss of persistence" (LOP) issue is related to KDE and not to a
> local configuration problem, I cannot determine any inconsistency between
> LOP for me, LOP for developers, LOP for advanced users, LOP for "actual
> users", and LOP for every other user of KDE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_a_dead_horse

XMLGUI is going away; it's kind of silly to have a long discussion on its 
flaws.

-Scott

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