On Sunday, 2013-10-27, 07:54:09, Michael wrote: > Granted, not all issues will face on every system, something triggers > the issues, sure. Not all users will think some stuff is implemented > weird and in a rather un-usable state (even if I think something must > be wrong with them then, as I can even understand the Gnome-decisions > and way of implementing things!), not everyone has the same need and > idea for a feature and how to implement it. Some may never have any > issue whatsoever, be it just coincidence or they just don't use that > particular feature or at least not in a way that the issues would show > itself.
I guess this is at the heart of the problem, i.e. issues or weird behavior only triggered under certain circumstances. Computer systems have a huge variety of aspects, each potentially contributing to the observed behavior. It often takes a concerted effort of many people to narrow down those candidates to the actually contributing factors in order to make a problem reproducable with enough reliability to analyse and fix it (including verification of the solution). > So, that all said, what do you guys, users and maybe even developers of > KDE, think? I don't want to come around as rude or overly harsh, as > really, I think KDE is a great Desktop Environment, it just has some > really rough edges. Is it just me, or are others also thinking KDE > could / should invest more efforts in QA and maybe less in implementing > new stuff? I know, "send patch" yada yada... that does not apply here, > at least not well enough. It does apply here as well. While sending a patch is a particular form of contribution, e.g. providing a potential fix, it is generally a suggestion to get involved [1] in the process of finding a solution. That process starts at, as I outline above, narrowing down contributing factors, ideally resulting in a situation that will show the faulty behavior on a development setup. Cheers, Kevin [1] http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Quality -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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