KDE's rough edges... what are your experiences?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2013-10-28, 14:59:12, Michael wrote:

> > FWIW, my thinking on this is that it just happens that the kde devs
> > (and in particular the plasma devs, since that's the desktop kde
> > uses) have a particularly bad case of one of the traits very common
> > to free and open source application development and the developers
> > behind them -- the "developer scratches his own itch and stops when
> > it stops itching for him" phenomenon.
> 
> That "phenomenon" does exist, but again, I really hope it is not the
> main attitude in KDE-land. If I am wrong, then, developers please stand
> up and say "KDE is just for us, not for users that don't contribute /
> code".

I think we can safely assume that desktop developers do not share that 
attitude.
Some are certainly working towards a more long term goal, but in general a lot 
of how things are implemented suggest that they make customization as easy as 
possible, making it easy for others to either scratch their itch or find 
someone with a similar goal who is scratching theirs :)

> anyway) developers do stuff not only for them. And if stuff is not
> supposed to be for "everyone", why release it to the public in the first
> place?

Publishing makes sense even if there is only a subset of "everyone" who has 
the same needs. Even if one doesn't know if there is someone else.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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