[Okular-devel] [Bug 181290] Landscape pdf prints with wrong orientation when choosing landscape in print dialog

[Luca Tomat]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181290





--- Comment #33 from Luca Tomat <luca tomat gmail com>  2010-02-22 00:45:38 ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> #29 and #30, if you are not going to give coding time nor money to fix the
> issue you should nor really comment because your comments add exactly *zero*
> value to the issue, we all know printing is broken.

So, Albert, are you saying that KDE developers just don't care about the
opinion of their users? The users should not be entitled to their own opinion
on KDE because they don't give money or coding time? What is the goal of bug
reports? Is this a private club for KDE developers and financial supporters?

You know, it is weird, i have always thought that contributing with a bug
report is a CONTRIBUTE to the project exactly as it could be with money or
coding time because they say not only what is wrong, but also what the users
think is IMPORTANT. But of course this supposes that on the other side there is
someone that reads them and tries to learn something from them, if nothing else
at least what is valuable to their users and what is not, instead than telling
to their users that with their comments they add "exactly zero value to the
issue". Not only this, but here we have users that are using their time to read
this bug report and comment. Is their time less valuable than developer's time?
Should they pay someone to have the privilege to tell you what's important?

You say "we all know printing is broken". Really? But maybe what you miss to
know is that printing is IMPORTANT to a desktop user. And this is what these
comments try to point out. After years from the initial release of KDE4 _still_
printing is not working as it should and it did (in KDE3). Is it such a shame
if some users try to underline this important aspect trying to get the
attention of who CAN and KNOWS how to fix this problem? What is the point of
wasting coding time adding useless graphical effects when an important
subsystem of KDE still is missing to work properly (when it used to work in
KDE3)? Maybe coding special effects is more fun than getting a printer to work
out of the box? Do you think KDE users need more special effects or print
without having to turn the world upside-down?

Do you see the point of these comments now? Do you see WHY they are important
just like the coding time of a developer?

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