Am Freitag, 22. März 2013, 12:13:13 schrieb Mirosław Zalewski: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The biggest issue is that with each new release, there's more glitches > > while the old ones are still there. > > On 22/03/2013 at 11:38, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > And make sure you ALWAYS test with a new user or move the old config files > > elsewhere when you do a major upgrade. > > Myriam, this is exactly Nikos point. Old config files laying around causes > various issues with KDE SC. By encouraging him to triage bugs on fresh > config, you admit that. > > I think that this is huge drawback of KDE SC. As user, I am forced to > recreate my carefully crafted configuration from scratch with each major > update. Do I remember what exactly did I change and where? No, I have > better things to do. Starting from fresh config, I only discover that > something I am used to does not work. Then I go into System settings and > try to find relevant option. Recreating configuration is not matter of two > or three hours; it's matter of days during which my work is not effective, > because I am constantly disturbed with changes I have to make. > > Or I can save myself some hustle and start from fresh config, but copy some > old files over. But this way I am forced to dive into KDE SC internals and > understand purpose of each file (to be able to judge whether I should copy > it or not). Do I want to? No, I have other things to do. > > Honestly, why can't KDE SC support seamless update from previous major > release? Is it too much work to rewrite config files whose format has > changed? And how would you expect can a bug be found in the config update path when you don't test against a clean fresh user? This is the old game of (at best) a handful of developers against a million use cases. Ingo Malchow -- (neverendingo) KDE Community Working Group, KDE User Working Group KDE Community Forums Administrator New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org or ask questions on http://forum.kde.org
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