Yet another failed KDE release?

Ingo Malchow imalchow at kde.org
Mon Mar 25 09:05:45 GMT 2013


Am Montag, 25. März 2013, 09:56:08 schrieb dE .:
> 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.

So they ... edit it. Did you want to proof my point? ...

Ingo Malchow
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