Hello, IMHO, when a user makes a request, he will not perform a market study on his demand. He knows his needs and he doesn't ask, nor speaks, for other users hand. I feel an important amount of stress from the developers part, regarding the code involved. From the user part this is unknown. As professional developer, the easy to use a feature is, the harder might be to implement in the code. When I became software developer, I've sworn to satisfy my customers, of course when possible and within the feasible limits. So, I would not reject a requested feature unless I have good technical reasons to prevent it, based on the argument of complexity of code. Of course, maintenance is a good reason to reject when not enough resources are present, in order to support that feature (is this the case?).
So, as KDE user, I can't give any statistics, polls, whatever in favor or against this button. I just _feel_ it is better than breadcrumbs for _me_. It is _natural_ to _me_. Form _my_ point of view, breadcrumbs are also useful, as a shortcut, when I need to jump over some elements in the path. So, the back button and breadcrumbs, although seem redundant, they are not, _to me_. I would use the 'back' button in 90% of cases. It is the very same case with Dolphin (the 'Up' button vs the path breadcrumbs), again, _for me_. BTW, not all users that miss the button will complain. Some devs say that these messages are lose of time for them. I can say using the breadcrumbs in the KickOff menu make me losing time too, for the sole reason it is unnatural _to me_ to use it there. Also, user feedback is not a lose of time. Although not many users express their gratitude for the developers work, because, _it seems_, the human nature is to complain about things not working or things not done. Sometimes it should happen. I _need_ to tell you, all the KDE team, that I love your work, some may say _imperfect_, but _great_ I say, knowing the effort you put in keeping it as close as possible to our needs. KDE is, _in my opinion_, well designed, flexible to be extended, clean and visually appealing. And OPEN. Making Plasma and Plasmoids is a good move. It's in the spirit of Linux and its customizability. I hope you keep up this good work for long. Thank you, Mike. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel