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Originally posted by elanthis View PostYeah, that sums it up. Why do something for free in a shitty online environment filled with whiny self-entitled Linux users when you can get paid six figures to do stuff in an awesome office environment with a user-insulating QA department?
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Originally posted by birdie View PostLuckily you are on my ignore list. Your words clearly indicate the level (not the lowest, just missing entirely) of argumentation you can provide.Last edited by kraftman; 26 June 2012, 05:22 PM.
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So what?
Developers come to and leave FOSS projects all the time. Heck, even the KDE initiator uses GNOME since years. So what?
There are parts within KDE that are not doing well and there parts that do well. As it's all modular, it's easy to use alternatives. E.g. I do not use Konqueror or Rekonq as web browser but Firefox.
Peter leaving is sad but the world is not ending. Dolphin is in good shape and a new maintainer is already filling the gap. Hey, maybe it's for the better?
Who would've thought that KWin would so greatly improve after Lubos Lunak was reassigned by his employer Novell to work on OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Martin stepped in and turned KWin fron a second-grade WM to the best out there.
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Originally posted by asdxFile bug reports then
Originally posted by asdxor even fix them yourself and then contribute the fixes back to the code. Or do some work to improve the test suite so that you make sure there are tests in place to avoid regressions.
Of course there are also some people within the KDE community who do care about quality. The kwin developer for example is such an exception.
However, just looking at the taskbar, which still does not work properly 4.5 years after the release of 4.0, shows me that there is no point in trying to improve QA because the developers just don't care about it. Come on, the TASKBAR, one of the most basic items of a desktop environment is still unable to align icons properly!
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostDevelopers come to and leave FOSS projects all the time. Heck, even the KDE initiator uses GNOME since years. So what?
There are parts within KDE that are not doing well and there parts that do well. As it's all modular, it's easy to use alternatives. E.g. I do not use Konqueror or Rekonq as web browser but Firefox.
Peter leaving is sad but the world is not ending. Dolphin is in good shape and a new maintainer is already filling the gap. Hey, maybe it's for the better?
Who would've thought that KWin would so greatly improve after Lubos Lunak was reassigned by his employer Novell to work on OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Martin stepped in and turned KWin fron a second-grade WM to the best out there.
Nice comment overall
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