A few words about the Quality of KDE 4.2

[James Richard Tyrer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 22 March 2009 13:08:11 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>  But, the current
>> release has an unstable  desktop with serious usability issues.  
> 
> My desktop is not unstable, 

What do you mean by unstable?  I ask because some people define unstable 
as only meaning that it crashes.  That is not what I mean.  When a Panel 
decides to change its configuration on its own without any user input, 
that is unstable.  When things only work correctly part of the time, 
that is instability.

I note that I find the desktop to be a lot less stable when I attempt to 
configure it, than if I simply use the defaults.

> and the usability issues are no more than I have 
> found in any previous desktop I've used, linux or windows.
> 
You must be using a different desktop than I am. :-)

>> I guess that I will have to get into Skinnerian psychology.  People
>> aren't really as complicated as you think.  People will do what they
>> receive positive reinforcement for doing.
> 
> Our developers have had precious little of that in the last 12 months.
> 
Yes, that is unfortunate since BFS was also quite clear that aversive 
control (negative reinforcement) doesn't really work.  So, it is best to 
discuss how to improve things rather than to simply gripe about what is 
wrong.

> Can we stop this now?  There really can't be anything more to be said.
> 
Yes, we can go back to ignoring the Elephant, but it will still exist.

-- 
JRT

Linux (mostly) From Scratch

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