From kde-devel Thu May 15 20:02:09 2003 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 20:02:09 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Suggestion Box? ATTN: Dre X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105302958112948 I would really like to contribute to the KDE project. I am a IT professional currently on disability. I currently don't know C++ although I can write programs in C although I must admit that I don't completely understand C programing (some of it I don't even want to understand). For reasons that I'm not going into except to say that I have CFS/FM, I do not feel that I am currently able to write code. However, I do know programing and would like to help. I suspect that many of you may not understand what I am talking about since it is a common misconception that writing code is equivalent to programing -- that if you have learned a computer language that you have learned programing. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Despite the fact that I do not write code, I could still help with programing. Why would I be any help? Because programs need to be designed before they are coded. It is the hacker mentality to immediately start coding. I have seen several projects on: http://apps.kde.com that were well coded but were not designed first and therefore didn't work. I had started going through the huge backlog of bugs. But, I haven't done much of this lately because of poor health. I was going to start on it again but couldn't help thinking that the 'arogrant developer's that quickly closed some of the bugs that I submitted might also like to dig through the huge backlog of bugs (some over a year old). Perhaps LIFO is more 'fun' than FIFO. Or, perhaps they just like being disrespectful. I say disrespectful because I think (perhaps wrongly) that a mature IT professional should get some respect from self taught hackers half his age. But, to my question: Where is the suggestion box? And. no I don't mean submitting a 'feature request' bugs. Somewhere KDE needs to be designed and suggestions need to be discussed. I realize that this is contrary to what I see. What I see seems antithetical to Open Source -- a rather closed and insular world where those in that world know that they are right about everything and do not want any input from the outside; certainly not from users. If you doubt this, please see some of my recent postings. 1. [PATCH] kdebase for 'startkde' I guess nobody understands that a big chunk of the: 'startkde' script that supposedly deals with fonts doesn't work correctly and is incompatible with FontConfig. 2. MIME types: inode Lauri Watts was nice. But, only suggested that I do something other than what I wanted to do. 3. Icon priority: hicolor vs. ??????? I am unable to really understand kde@arnoldarts.de's remarks: > Icons in the standard-theme have precedence and the standard-theme is > crystalsvg. but I get the impression that he understands this a LOT less than I do. Or perhaps he was just being rude. It all three cases, I posted a follow up which was not answered. So, my question is, is this (kde-devel) the correct place for such suggestions? If not, does it exist? Where? And, if not, would KDE consider creating such a list? I also wonder if it was that nobody actually understood what I was talking about or do the members of the list just want for me to go away and leave those 'inside' to themselves. As I said, I would really like to help with the project and I feel that I could contribute a lot. -- JRT >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<