Konqueror problems and a SERIOUS commitment

[Dawit A]

This has been said time and again, but it bears repeating since most
users do not seem to realize it.

Since there is always lack of man power in volunteer projects like
KDE, which is especially true for Konqueror,  the only way you can get
your bugs fixed is by helping out in some way or fashion. I know most
users do not like to hear that, but that is the cold hard truth! How
can you help ? Well you can do any of the following depending on your
skill:

1.) If you are a developer, you can start with fixing some small
issues. If you do not know how to get started with solving a
particular problem, then you can ask.

2.) If you are not a developer, then you can in the least make sure
your bug report is not a duplicate of another that was previously
reported.

3.) The most important help any user can provide however is to help
the developers weed through bug reports and find ones that are truly
valid bugs. This is especially true for the components that have the
highest amount of bugs reported against them. For example, since we
are talking about konqueror specifically here, there are some 441
crash, 1505 normal, 1085 wishlist bug reported as generic konqueror
issues. The truth is most of these bug reports are really not
konqueror bugs, but bugs against components used in konqueror, e.g.
khtml or they are totally duplicates, or they have already been fixed
in recent versions or simply they cannot be reproduced (by even the
user that reported them).

In order for a developer to fix your bug report (s)he has to weed
through all of that in the order reported. Old bug reports first and
fix them. Then Imagine how long that would take when there is not a
dedicated team simply triaging and managing bug reports ? Right. So as
far as I am concerned the actual solution to your problem is to
convince people like you to participate in the process so that you can
get what you want fixed or even learn how to fix it for yourself, in
which case you do not even have to worry about people fixing things
for you.


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Im a user that uses to use konqueror, i only use other browser when im
> really forced to.
> And latelly im being forced too many times to use other browsers
> intead konqueror, this because started to appear too many situations
> where konqueror fails, and i do a serious effort to report all bugs i
> see. But i havent seen bug reports getting closed/fixed (only very few
> got fixed), so i took the initiative to write to this mailing list
> with the hope i could somehow call your attention and efforts to give
> more love to konqueror.
>
> At this point in konqueror misses severall funtionalities that most
> popular browsers have and of course all those bugs and to put konq at
> the same level (or at least near) of those popular browser, it would
> need serious work by the development team.
>
> Will it be possible so that all konq developers to gather efforts and
> start this quest?
> Maybe agending a meeeting so that all this could be discussed, discuss
> new ideas and improvements?
>
> kind regards,
> a konqueror lover :)
>