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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Plea to KDE2 developers for bug fixing
From:       Michael Jarrett <yoamwmvs () umail ! corel ! com>
Date:       2001-01-25 14:04:27
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I'm using a KDE2 CVS from before Christmas on one of my machines. I
haven't yet had a single problem that I didn't cause myself. I even do
all my development with it, and it works wonders! I would not hesitate
to install KDE from today's CVS on any of my (or others') machines, it's
looking SO good...

I dunno what you're talking about.

Mike

Bart Szyszka wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using KDE off and on (usually Windows when off
> unfortunately) for almost two years now and I want to make a
> plea to the KDE2 developers: *please* set aside at least a month,
> if not two, to get the *current* stage of KDE2 as stable and bug-free
> as possible. Just a month or two. After that you can continue adding
> a new features.
> 
> I'm starting to loose hope in the idea of there ever being a truley good
> and useable version of post-KDE2 (in other words, everything after you
> guys decided to drop KDE1 and develop KDE2 instead). Some bugs
> get fixed, but there are still many many others that don't and you guys
> don't seem to care. Too many of you are too caught up in adding cool
> new stuff in KDE that you fail to make the *current* stuff useable. I've
> tried using Linux w/ KDE2 as my default OS, but I can't. It's just too
> buggy and too unfinished. In the first few days it's fine, but for long term
> use, there are only so many glitches you can take before you decide to just
> revert back to something else. Make what you have *now* be 99.9%
> bugless and stable or else you're just procrastinating with fixing it and
> the
> longer you wait, the more bugs pile on and the more they pile on, the more
> impossible it will be for you to make KDE good. At this pace, you're
> never going to get KDE2 good if you're always going to put off taking a
> fine comb through the code.
> 
> You're not going to win me over with cool features if you don't bother to
> make everything glitchless. It just doesn't work that way. Playing with
> people's nerves is not nice. I know some of you follow the selfish
> philosophy
> of developing only to fulfill your own personal self-interests, but KDE2 is
> just not going to be any good for anyone else if it's buggy. And if it's not
> going to be good for anyone else, companies won't use it, people won't use
> it, and you're forcing everyone to be stuck in a Microsoft-controled market.
> I'm being forced to use Windows right now because I fail to see a reliable
> alternative. With each new KDE2 build that I try, my hope gets smaller and
> smaller that anything useable will come out of this project.
> 
> - Bart
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