Suggestion for Konquerer developers and delivering "stripped" releases

[Tim Ri]

On Monday 06 November 2006 00:11, OnThe Road- wrote:

> To get Konqueuer to crash, using (XUbuntu 6.06), just
> go to cnn.com, select the business button. That's it!
> Gone...every,.. single,.. time...

Correct me if i am wrong, but I think XUbuntu ships with firefox as default 
browser. Was it a typo? Perhaps you ment to write "Kubuntu" ?
Anyway, it seems to me this warrants a bugreport ( try  
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs or http://bugs.kde.org).

> If you are unreasonable and unwilling to do this, at
> least make a debug binary build available, that's the
> least I would expect.

Huh? But ubuntu _does_ make them available, see the various -dbg packages.

> BTW, I have been developing C/C++ for over 20 years
> and I must say that software should never crash.

Well, *duh*, I have a feeling everyone on this list is going to agree with you 
on this one.

> [...] Have you
> ever heard of exception handling? If not, I would
> suggest that you read up on it (and think about
> implementing it).

Might I suggest you do some research on your audience ("Konquerer [sic] 
developers") before making suggestions ? Read the numerous threads concerning 
exception handling on the kde-devel list (use gmane.org) for example.

> I would suggest to stop trying to add features as fast
> as possible and fix what's already there.

And that is exactly what is happening with kde 3.5. The above mentioned crash  
has already been fixed (I use 3.5.5 and it works perfectly fine with 
cnn.com).

Oh, a final suggestion of my own. Contact the author of 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97769 and team up, write a book based on 
your suggestions and publish it.

Have a nice day,

Tim