On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 03:02:14PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > Well, KDE has kmilo, which had some special keys supported for IBM > > laptops, so there is a difference in the implementation. > > That's not required on *buntu based systems. Thinkpad hotkeys appear via > the input layer.
Sure, but it's there...and if we have those special things in KDE or in any
other desktop flavour, we need to be sure, that it doesn't clash with the
underlaying technology.
>
> > Well, yes, the underlaying technology is the same, but the implementation
> > is different. And this has to be tested, if or if not the underlaying
> > technology is working on all different desktop flavours, not just one.
>
> No, really, it doesn't. The low-level implementation needs to be tested
> on as many machines as possible, but the desktop-level implementation
> only needs to be tested on one.
Well, I can test the underlaying functionality most of the time without any
desktop environment...no problem. But what would that give us, if it's not
working on any desktop?
And would it be good, to test it only on one desktop, and not on the others?
Think about the regression now in dapper of KDE...it's really sad to tell the
users: "Sorry, it doesn't work, because we just tested it on GNOME, nobody
cared about KDE or XFCE".
*Ubuntu != Ubuntu Server is all about the desktop. And all the functionality
which is included in the ubuntu-base should be tested on all desktop
flavours. That's my POV, just because it's all about the user.
And you can believe me, the userbase of {K,X}Ubuntu I have to work with is
pretty big.
Regards,
\sh
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