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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] On the future of the menubar
From:       Lydia Pintscher <lydia () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-04-09 8:23:59
Message-ID: u2n938b46781004090123k6d40dc0ava94bac4d06ba0856 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/4/9 Aurélien Gâteau <agateau@kde.org>:
> Well, I owe you a longer explanation on this one.
>
> First I'd like to state I don't think you intend any harm, and I am
> convinced you genuinely care for KDE. But the way you interact on this
> list is starting to get more and more painful to me (and maybe to
> others?). You have to understand that usability is highly subjective and
> that you can't convince everybody that your viewpoints are the holy true
> ones (I certainly have been guilty of that sin as well in the past).
>
> Right now it reached the point where everytime you answer a thread I
> know it's dead because it's going to degenerate into an endless
> discussion from which nothing good emerges. I could killfile you, but
> then the whole list would not make much sense anymore, since more than
> one message out of five on the list comes from you (based on my rolling
> 3 month archive, you sent 72 messages out of 323 on this list)
>
> It also reached the point where I refrain from posting to this list for
> fear that nothing constructive is going to get out of it.
>
> You have to realize that when a thread has stopped with no outcome one
> month ago, it's over. Trying to revive it is only going to produce more
> noise.
>
> As I said, I am sure you want to help KDE, but right now I don't think
> that's what you are doing.
>
> Aurélien

Well put. And rest assured that this is not just your view. I have
heard a few people say pretty much exactly the same thing. They have
just given up on this list already unfortunately.


Cheers
Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
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