Yet another failed KDE release?

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Ingo Malchow <imalchow at kde.org> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 22. März 2013, 13:15:07 schrieb Mirosław Zalewski:
> > On 22/03/2013 at 12:34, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> > > It is almost impossible, since the user can dramatically modify the
> > > original configuration and automating the process of wading through
> > > often illogical configuration files with triple definitions and
> > > contradictory instructions set by the user is a a lot of work
> >
> > I think there are two important things to note:
> > (1) config files are created by KDE SC, not by users with text editors
>
> This is an assumption and hopefully no dev ever thinks the same way. Config
> files are text files and CAN be edited by anyone. And guess what, they are
> quite
> often edited by hand. You need to think in the big picture. What will your
> users do with what you provide?
> But nevertheless...
>

No your's is an assumption and you're guessing.

Off the millions of users, only devs have the patience and knowledge to
edit those. Users edit them to workaround bugs.
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