| On Tuesday 17 March 2009 03:30:44 Samuel Kage wrote: > Currently I'm running KDE 4.2.1 on Opensuse, which is known for making one > of the best KDE packages. > Even though I'm really sad about the stability of KDE these days. For > explaining why, i want to describe a common use case for me an many many > other users. > > The first thing I notice, after booting up, is the quicklauncher-bug which > makes a very often-used part of the desktop nearly unusable because you > cant see the small icons. > Next thing is checking my E-mails and the calendar... The week view in > Korganizer is gone (I know its just hidden. But for any normal user its > completely broken). > Then i maybe get a message in kopete. That looks very unsmooth, if your > panel is aligned to center and not over the whole screen, cause the > appearing message button in the systray moves all other plasmoids in the > panel around. Once when it appears and once when it disappears (very > often). > Now I want to hear music... When starting Amarok I often get a message: The > device M-Audio***** (My sound card) is not working. Which means for any > normal user, who don't know how to fiddle around in systemsettings, that he > can't hear music in KDE. At least not with his favourite player. > When I'm done and want to shut down the pc the last thing that always > happens is a plasma crash these days. (last month it was a Kontact crash) > which prevents the computer from shutting down. Which is also annoying > because you often don't notice it before you return to the pc after hours > or days. (That are just actual and very obvious bugs but there are much > more small ones) > > Overall its partly no smooth experience to use KDE these days and I really > don't understand why such things happen. I see the point in releasing KDE > 4.0 so unstable and i don't want to talk about the past. But now we have > 4.2 and that release is meant for end-users. Furthermore this release is > feature complete for most of the normal users. So why isn't the focus on > bug fixing now? KDE 4.2.1 should just be a bug fix release. But for me it > contains more bugs than 4.2.0. and much of them are really obvious. > I think we just CAN'T release KDE with so much bugs if it should be taken > serious. Just stop a second, try to be honest and imagine what would happen > if MS would release Windows in such a state... You would laugh at them, and > blame them for releasing such a buggy piece of software. > Or take the success of Ubuntu. It's mainly because most things just work. > Overall I think there are things that really need to be changed. The focus > has to be on bug fixing. And when it can't be done timely, releases have to > be delayed. What about a real QA Team which has to make sure that there is > no release before all obvious bugs are squashed? > > Please don't get me wrong. I love KDE4. I'm with it since the 4.0 betas. > It's a damned cool peace of software and has sooo much potential. And I > really love to use it because of the very much genial things it offers. > Kudos to all developers for that. > The only things to complain about are the bugs. > > I try to spread KDE in my family and to my friends. But, tell me, how > should I explain the many bugs to them? They are no experts so they don't > need special features! They just want it working. Just like over 90% of the > normal users, too. > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. -- Cheers, http://turtlespond.net http://rickmiles.com.au |
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