David E. Ross wrote:
On 3/31/12 12:59 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Trying to say this nicely, some developers are more concerned than
others what the users think. Does the phrase "it's FOSS, if you don't
like don't use it, or maintain your own version."
"ring any bells" ? No, but I am quite willing to believe that
such an attitude exists, even though "maintain your own" is
a non-starter for 99.999% of all Windows users, myself included.
I'm just happy that there is a way around it,
I am not. I am not willing to install an add-on just in order
to work around a design flaw; an add-on that /adds/ functionality
(such as "Prefbar") yes; one that is needed only because of a
perverse design decision, no.
What is clear as that while the developers may be superb coders,
their design skills are not always as finely honed, and the
Seamonkey user community (many of whom go back to Netscape 1.0,
as do I) have certain expectations : expectations, in particular,
that if Seamonkey ain't broke, it ill behoves the developers to
"fix" it. /That/, I believe, should be the cardinal rule of
Seamonkey development : fix anything that is broken, but ask
the user community's opinion before breaking anything that isn't.
My EUR 0,02.
Philip Taylor
If you have a bugzilla.mozilla.org login, go to bug #738948 at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738948> and vote for it.
Voted for it.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com
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