[Bug 157969] GUI for Adding/Removing of Panels Missing

[S.Burmeister]

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------- Additional Comments From sven.burmeister gmx net  2008-02-19 12:59 -------
> now i've been considering (and not in a vacuum) what we need to bring to
> the desktop for a couple of years and it's a hell of a lot better than what
> 99% of the wishlist entries that have been filed here have so far been
> asking for. i'd like to get on with it rather than deal with endless
> requests for duplicating the past. we'll duplicate what makes sense, and we
> happen to know the difference.


If you do not write it down, i.e. make it transparent, you cannot expect 
others to read your mind. Hence they either have to just wait and see or file 
their wishes, because you cannot read their mind either.

If you do not complain that people should have told you (discussed it) before, 
if they only complain after you have already finished your work on panel 
config, fair enough. Discussing on the ml is not possible if one does not 
know what you are going to implement and has to assume what is obvious to you 
or not, what you are going to reject from kde3 and so on.

I think it is better to state what one is going to do, get feedback and then 
implement it, to save your time, because changing it afterwards takes more 
time than writing "the obvious" down beforehand.

Apart from that and since you also mentioned that there are a lot of useless 
bug reports and wishes, including those duplicating what is obvious to you 
anyway: If the roadmap would state what you are going to implement and what 
not, including reasons, you would have saved yourself a lot of time and could 
just point to the roadmap. Since not everything from kde3 is going to be 
ported, it is currently a valid question, if a user asks: panel config, does 
that include xy?

I'm not going to bother you with any more discussion about this since I think 
that this is primarily a communication problem and iterating all over it 
again and again does not gain anything.

If you don't want to spend time on laying out the details I could write down a 
list of kde3-features for the panel in the roadmap and you simply add 
comments to those you do not consider worth porting.