On Wednesday 28 August 2002 21:27, Mark Weaver wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that > > surely by now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. > > Nope. Still there. You try to start konsole from the panel and the > > panel freezes and become useless until you close konsole at which point > > you get an error message about not being able to start konsole-noxft. [...] > > I don't mean to sound condecending or insensitive, but since it's "just" > a shortcut and not a system critical component, why not just do what ya > gotta do to it and enjoy the rest of KDE? thats what I've been doing. > and I haven't looked back. If that is the only thing folks are finding > wrong with KDE lately then where's the problem?
I suppose the problem is simply that it should be a simple fix (eliminate the noxft nonsense as the default) but it isn't fixed even after 3 full iterations of kde3.0 "stable". What is a new user going to think, or some business type considering switching to linux desktop systems when they come across silly things like this? Something so basic and simple should be fixed immediately. It isn't like recoding an app or creating a new one from scratch, it is simply fixing something that has been broken for good long time and shouldn't be. How about if the kmenu items in Office were all to cause kicker crashes whenever accessed? Should one just be happy and live with it because you could simply fire up a terminal and start all the apps from the CLI? At what point does a basic function and expectation on usability and polish become intolerable? I use the terminal a lot and I start it from kicker. I do not do desktop icons and I certainly don't want to keep using the kmenu. This isn't some broken API or glibc bug, this is a very simple default setting screwup that many apparently cannot get to stay fixed. It isn't a suprize either as it has been around since the beginning of the 3.x series. All I'm saying is fix it already! Quit adding apps and bloat and fix the bugs. THAT will win new users and keep them. Little bugs never fixed put an impression out that the whole set really isn't ready for the real world. Polish does matter. That mosquito humming about my ear is mainly just a minor annoyance too but it is enough of a distraction and annoyance that I will swat it immediately. praedor
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