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Re: Don't get me wrong...
by mkrs on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @08:29

Alright, but don't you have a feeling that a new version will be the one in which you remove only some of the old bugs and add a lot of new ones?

You see, the problem is that even the fanciest app is frustrating when it's buggy. Please don't forget that the most important thing about any computer program is usability. Without it, a program is worth nothing more than a wallpaper - maybe it looks great, but you get no benefit from using it if it hangs every 20 minutes, just like KDE 4.0.0 does on my computer (which is quite new and the computer itself is not a source of this problem). It's your free will to do what you want as devs, I do appreciate your hard work and I do love the idea KDE - but I am just very sad to say that I (and many other users) will never have a chance to check out all these new fancy functionalities as long as I can't run KDE and keep it stable!

Thanks for great work anyway!

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Re: Don't get me wrong...
by Peter Penz on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @09:39

> Alright, but don't you have a feeling that a new version
> will be the one in which you remove only some of the old
> bugs and add a lot of new ones?

Just some current numbers: since KDE 4.0 we've fixed around 50 Dolphin related bugs and have added 3 minor features/optimizations. Assuming that each of those 3 features will generate 5 new bugs (and that guessed number is quite high), then still we have a rate of 50 fixed bugs vs. introducing 15 new bugs...

> but you get no benefit from using it if it hangs every 20 minutes,
> just like KDE 4.0.0 does on my computer (which is quite new and
> the computer itself is not a source of this problem)

I cannot confirm such an instability with KDE 4.0. I'm working with KDE 4.0 each day and had 2 crashes since the release. There have been a lot of distribution specific issues with KDE 4.0 (especially with Kubuntu) - did you report your crashes to bugs.kde.org so that this can be verified and fixed by us developers? Thanks!

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Re: Don't get me wrong...
by mkrs on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @18:39

As I said, I meant no offence. I'm not here to complain and criticize you - please take it rather as a piece of advice or request from a regular user. I'm very happy that you are working hard and I promise I will try KDE 4.0.1.

And yes, it's true - I do use Kubuntu. Maybe that's why there are so many issues concerning the new KDE.

Cheers!

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