Easy to fix data-loss bug (#270105) reported in April needs attention.

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 13:34:11 Bart Kelsey wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I submitted a bug back in April:
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270105
> 
> I know enough about Qt to know that adding a confirm dialog should be,
> at most, a couple lines of code.  If I knew where to look in the
> codebase, I'd do it myself, but I'm busy with my own projects, and for
> a developer who already knows the code base, fixing this should take 5
> minutes, tops.  Would somebody take a look at it?  I can't imagine I'm
> the only person here to have run into it.
Hi Bart,

I am sorry that the bug has not yet been fixed. Please understand that the mailinglist is not intended to ask for bug 
fixes. It is unlikely that this will increase your chances to get the bug fixed. For Plasma more there are than 1000 open 
bug reports - just imagine if each user brings his pet bug to the mailinglist. It doesn't scale.

I just had a look at the bug report and I am sorry to say that I for instance do not use the widget and have never used 
it. It is also not part of our default panel and by that very likely that nobody of the developers hit your "bug". I changed 
from bug to feature request as what you are asking for is actually a feature as it requires changes from the existing 
behavior. Also we cannot implement it in a minor release as this would require new strings and that is not allowed.

There is unfortunately no way to escalate such bugs (I am working on a solution to that, see my blog in about one 
month from now) at the moment. We are no longer able to manage the bugs in bugzilla, we need many users to 
support us here, to correctly triage the bugs (your bug was in the wrong component), find duplicates and prepare for 
the developers which bugs are important to fix.

Thanks for your understanding,
Martin Gräßlin
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart K.
> 
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