On Wednesday 28 January 2009 00:19:49 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 21:57:09 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > That's the problem, people want stuff that they can't provide > > themselves and goes against what the ones doing the work decide to do. > > Forgive me Arthur but that's just plain rude. Nothing rude there. It's just a plain statement of fact. > Software is meant to be used > by users. If I'm misunderstanding what you're implying by the your post > then please forgive me. But even the most intelligent and best informed > group of people can make mistakes in judgment. The most famous examples is > the Bay of Pigs fiasco. > Not interested in politics. Please drop that. > User's can't provide the stuff that developers can provide because they > aren't developers. And developers should expect some negative feedback when > they don't meet users expectations, or go off in directions that proves to > be in error regarding the user experience. This is not a slight regarding > the hard work and skill that goes into development. > So a baker that doesn't make your favourite bread is making a big mistake? > And no... you can't please all the people all the time. But us users are > the ones that actually use that which is developed and we should be > respected. That we didn't provide more feedback is our error. But on the > other hand, we really didn't have that much experience on which to base an > opinion other than the quality and skill that went into KDE 3.x. > > More than likely because of the great programming that went into KDE 3.x > and the hype surrounding 4.x we all were expecting the first release to on > par. And a lot of us were disappointed that it wasn't. And in many ways > still isn't. But it is definitely getting there. > I think all are agreed that enthusiasm in many quarters did cause hype that lead to disappointment. > To paraphrase Rex in a previous post. There really isn't any point to > crying over spilled milk. > I still do not agree that it is spilled milk. We should agree to disagree, drop the subject, and get on with life. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090128/7dd15586/attachment.bin
