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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt5 -> KDE5?
From:       marcel partap <mpartap () gmx ! net>
Date:       2011-05-09 18:31:57
Message-ID: 4DC8331D.4050400 () gmx ! net
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Hi there,
on this occasion where future direction of KDE is being defined, here's just a note \
from a linux 'power user' who turned from full  KDE (3.5) fanboyness to using xfce, \
coping with some kde apps (yakuake, konqueror, okular, the games)...

> > - Do we want "KDE 5" to be a big change, or just a small increment?
> Do we need a big change? I don't think so - we are already fantastic :)
although you put a smiley there, _this_ attitude is what i perceive as a huge problem \
regarding current KDE. The continuing 'pareto  UI design frenzy', i.e. designing for \
the fictitious 80% collective of Joe-users(*) has been a real turn off to me. But the \
real  problem behind that is that often, even elaborate users have no choice of \
changing stuff they'd like to behave differently (besides  locally applying hacky \
patches). Fortunately, QML offers a great way out: separating GUI definition from the \
code providing features. This could result in what i'd  dream of as great solution - \
UI style sheets, for joes, advanced users or kids. That's a long way off though.

Another thing, the handling of bug reports could be a bit more mature in some cases. \
Flagging users UI improvement proposals as  RESOLVED/WONTFIX (**) or pretending loss \
of user data under special conditions is not a problem that could be dealt with (***) \
is  not what i'd consider super responsible maintainership... but then again i \
stopped reporting bugs anyways out of demotivation...

Not to play the blame game here, i still have hopes KDE can be the fun 'kool' power \
experience KDE 3.5 was, but my euphoric 4.x  expectations have largely been smashed \
by instability, imho poor UI decisions and a plasma dream that never materialized.

That said, will continue compiling QT/KDE trunk regularly and see what innovative new \
solutions you guys (hopefully) come up with! (: #regards/marcel.


(*) why at all is there a debate wether users should be able to rename files from \
file open/save dialogs? dialog text made  non-selectable for no good reasons, forcing \
manual transfer of alert messages to search engine boxes.. non-resizable modal \
dialogs  with scroll bars or ellipses? a silly more button in download dialogues \
taking just as much space as the information it hides.. list  goes on.
(**) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183774
(***) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265567


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