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Re: Mailody
by Janne on Tuesday 31/Oct/2006, @06:40

"I hope that KDE developers are not all that rude and irrational! I planned on working for KDE, but now I ask myself questions."

I'm not a KDE-developer. Nor do I consider myself to be "irrational". All my opinions are mine and do not represent KDE in any shape or form.

"Actually, I should not ask questions, apparently."

Sure you can ask questions. But asking them in a demanding manner ("why this piece of software? Is there something wrong with kmail!?") is quite rude. Instead of shouting questions and demanding answers, why not simply ask (for example) "why not work on Kmail instead?". The tone is much nicer. Using exclamation-points ("!") in questions make it seem like you are shouting and demandind answers.

I'm not even sure what prompted this discussion. So we have a developer who started writing a new mail-client. More power to him! Sometimes (most of the time) people do what they want to do, and maybe he just wanted to write a new mailclient. He did not want to work on Kmail, he wanted to start from scratch. And there's nothing wrong with that. Something the best course of action is to start from the beginning.

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