KDE 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[James Tyrer]

On 04/28/10 00:08, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 23:44:50 James Tyrer wrote:
>> I think that this is simply sloppy work -- perhaps the result of more
>> than one person doing it without sufficient discussion.  The developers
>> can do better, but if they can't, then the usability department should
>> redesign this and the coders should implement it.
>>
>> And, yes, I will volunteer to fix this.
>
> Excellent! Just out of curiosity: Why didn't you just file a bug report with an
> attached patch to fix this instead of risking being accused of writing
> derogatory comments about the developers?
>
It should be self evident that I can not personally fix all of the minor 
bugs and design deficiencies (including missing minor features) in 
KDE-4.  When KDE-4.3 was released, I had a list of issues I had found in 
KDE-4.2.  It was my intention to work on discussing, reporting, and 
fixing them.  A KDE official asked me not to.

I think that your suggestion to file a bug report with the patch to fix 
it attached is reasonable, but I have done this and it doesn't seem to 
be well received.  I think that bug #232617  is an example.  The patch 
was posted 2010-03-29 21:10:24

Due to other things which I will not go into, I have reached the 
conclusion that developers do not want help with design work and do not 
appear to want other people fixing their bugs.

I will mention Bug #162368 and http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1877/

IAC, fixing one instance will not solve the problem.  I do not know how 
to solve the actual problems and those in authority seem determined to 
deny the existence of problems.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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