> Yes, KDE has a quality problem. I say this as someone that has been> ostracized for advocating that KDE be well designed and well executed.> One has to wonder about some of the issues in KDE-4.2.1 if the person> that did the codding has ever used what he wrote the code for.>
You are probably referring to Aaron, and yes, he uses Plasma.
> The question is why we still have glaring bugs and instability.>
In Suse? Because it is the Suse way to muck with KDE. Vanilla KDE 4.2is very stable.
> It appears to me that in many cases that basic TQM could solve the> problems. For those that don't know what TQM means, it starts with the> philosophy that the way to have a quality product is to build it> correctly rather than build it, inspect it, and fix what is wrong. With> software, this means that the person writing the code should do basic> testing before committing the code.>
Again, this is a Suse issue and should not be confused with a KDE issue.
> The other question is stability. While some KDE-4 applications are very> stable with only a few small bugs. Plasma is unstable (pre Beta).> Earle r this week, I created a new panel at the left (my left) of the> screen. It was wide so that it could hold the Task Manager and set to> auto hide and grow from the bottom of the screen. It seemed to work> except that there was a problem with the Task Manager not setting the> proper height for the font. Then as I sat there doing nothing, it> changed itself to always visible and growing from the top of the screen.> This is not a bug, this is instability. IMHO, more design work was> needed at the beginning rather than developing a lot of widgets when it> appears that there is a general instability in the library. IAC,> something this unstable should be called Alpha and should not be in a> release.>
I urge you to try vanilla KDE 4.2. To tell you the truth, I'm not surehow to do that on Suse. My Suse box is KDE 3.5.10, I only have KDE 4.2on the Kubuntu Jaunty test machine.
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