2010/2/25 Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> > > Dotan, when I tried to check out your filing on the freedesktop site, I > got > > a message from Firefox to the effect that the certificate being used for > the > > site was invalid. Perhaps you'd like to forward this to those concerned ? > > They already know. They are of the opinion that Firefox is too strict > and the warning to "scary", furthermore, they argue that their usage > of the certificate is a valid usage scenario. You can add an exception > for that site and use it just fine. It's not "bank safe" but it is not > meant to be. > > This is another example of the same issue: different bodies blaming > each other and the user suffering as nobody takes responsibility and > fixes the issue. That is why it is important to comment on _all_three_ > bugs that I posted: any of them can solve the issue but none of them > will. > > > > The original KDE bug reported not being able to use «Ctrl+Shift» to input > > Unicode glyphs ; presently Gnome uses «Ctrl+Shift+u» - but I presume that > > this doesn't work on KDE ?... > > > > Correct. «Ctrl+Shift+u» does not work on KDE because the KDE dev > things that Qt should implement it upstream. Qt does not implement it > because the Qt dev thinks that X should implement it upstream. X > thinks that the downstreams should implement it, just as Gnome has > (Gnome is one of the downstreams). > > -- > Dotan Cohen >
A pity that open-source people seem to have such difficulty cooperating with each other on such easily resolvable issues as this one ! To my mind,the KDE dev should recognise that if QT and X won't implement this then he or she should, as its users, not upstream, who are suffering.... Henri
