A few words about the Quality of KDE 4.2

[Dotan Cohen]

> Yes, KDE has a quality problem.  I say this as someone that has been
> ostracized for advocating that KDE be well designed and well executed.
> One has to wonder about some of the issues in KDE-4.2.1 if the person
> that did the codding has ever used what he wrote the code for.
>

You are probably referring to Aaron, and yes, he uses Plasma.

> The question is why we still have glaring bugs and instability.
>

In Suse? Because it is the Suse way to muck with KDE. Vanilla KDE 4.2
is very stable.

> It appears to me that in many cases that basic TQM could solve the
> problems.  For those that don't know what TQM means, it starts with the
> philosophy that the way to have a quality product is to build it
> correctly rather than build it, inspect it, and fix what is wrong.  With
> software, this means that the person writing the code should do basic
> testing before committing the code.
>

Again, this is a Suse issue and should not be confused with a KDE issue.

> The other question is stability.  While some KDE-4 applications are very
> stable with only a few small bugs.  Plasma is unstable (pre Beta).
> Earle r this week, I created a new panel at the left (my left) of the
> screen.  It was wide so that it could hold the Task Manager and set to
> auto hide and grow from the bottom of the screen.  It seemed to work
> except that there was a problem with the Task Manager not setting the
> proper height for the font.  Then as I sat there doing nothing, it
> changed itself to always visible and growing from the top of the screen.
>  This is not a bug, this is instability.  IMHO, more design work was
> needed at the beginning rather than developing a lot of widgets when it
> appears that there is a general instability in the library.  IAC,
> something this unstable should be called Alpha and should not be in a
> release.
>

I urge you to try vanilla KDE 4.2. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure
how to do that on Suse. My Suse box is KDE 3.5.10, I only have KDE 4.2
on the Kubuntu Jaunty test machine.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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