Hi Jeff, > I'd bet anything that KDE was applying some theme or another to > Evolution to make it look like other KDE/Qt applications and that's what > was causing the crashes (we got a lot of reports from people running KDE > and it was because of the theme they were using, having them switch to > no theme made all the crashes go away) > > we can't be blamed for other people's software products being buggy (tho > we often are). >
True enough Jeff. But at the same time I think Ximian (at the time) should have investigated this and done something to rectify the situation (filed a bug with KDE, coded some workaround, etc.). Perhaps they did. I don't know. I mean I could use your reasoning (which I do agree with in general) to likewise say "Well, we can't be blamed if OpenOffice.org crashes under Microsoft Windows. We can't be blamed for other operating systems being buggy.". How many people tying OpenOffice.org under Windows (assuming it was crashing a lot relative to other programs) would "blame" Windows vs OpenOffice.org? Not many I daresay. They just wouldn't bother with OpenOffice.org. Same goes for Evolution. If KDE (surely one of the Windows Managers under which Evolution should have run flawlessly) was at fault then the question was why? And why did different themes cause Evolution to be unstable under KDE? Did Ximian ever address that or did they simply ring their hands and say "Well that's KDE's fault and not something we should have to deal with"? Would Novell do something in so far as they could, if Evolution was likewise crashing under KDE today? Does Novell consider running Evoltuion under other Window Managers important enough to fix bugs relative to running under those Window Managers or is it mainly focused on Evolution being a Gnome product? Just curious. Carlos _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
