KDE's Plasma: How not to do lists...

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 04:40:03 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2010 20:53:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > just read your blog on planet.kde.org, and i have to say that perhaps the
> > least useful way of reporting bugs is by blog. full stop. that you
> > decided to spend your first blog entry in over 2 years doing that is
> > pretty sad.
> > 
> > if you come and talk to those of us working on these things, we could
> > help you out with some useful information. as it stands, your blog entry
> > is full information that is either wrong or missing background
> > information that would help explain things a bit more.
> > 
> > it would have been no more difficult to contact us with your questions
> > than it was to write that blog entry. we have a mailing list:
> > plasma-devel at kde.org. the same text you wrote in your blog entry could
> > have found its way there first/instead.
> > 
> > i could understand if you'd asked and nobody had replied or we'd given
> > you some unuseful reply. but you didn't bother to do that.
> 
> I think it's also a pity that instead of engaging in a discussion how to
> fix the issues (or just straight sit down and fix them, most problems
> you're writing about seem rather papercuts than serious issues), you just
> toned down (I guess, didn't read the original entry you deleted). Leads me
> to believe that the intention is to do a public rant, not to actually
> improve things, which makes me sad. We should deal differently with each
> other.

By the way, just strikes me that I've implemented VPN support in the new Network 
Manager Plasmoid last week, and I've already some reports that it seems to work well. 
What kind of VPN are you using?

You can find the network management Plasmoid that has this in 
kdereview/networkmanagement. If you want to use the plasmoid (not knetworkmanager), 
make sure the kded module for it is loaded. (I've explained on my blog how to do 
that.)

If you have questions, or it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll see if we can 
get it fixed. :)

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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