Konqueror problems and a SERIOUS commitment

[Zé]

2011/5/7 Dawit A <adawit at kde.org>:
> 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.

Dont put things like that, why would it be for me?
I simply like konqueror, and im one of the persons that would like to
see it better, why address things on purpose just for me?

There are severall problems mainly when using khtml view, so far the
bugs i have reported are real, it would be a good improvement to have
the html related problems fixed.

This can be easily seen for example when entering in Gmail, using
khtml causes severall problems, even using webkit view haves some
issues but without man power theres no point to discuss :(

Im just in the begining of learning c++, if i could i would already helped...

I hope i can reach the point in wich i can interview and develop
konqueror, until there i hope that konqueror still exists...


>
> 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 :)
>>
>



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