https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352851
--- Comment #9 from Jesse <jesse.dub...@gmail.com> --- @Steve, appreciate the comment. 1) No doubt, overloading the team isn't my desire in the least. And I agree, everyone will have their opinion on little details; "polish" and "presence" can look different to a variety of audiences. Being that I'm not a developer, nor have an ounce of non-html code knowledge (or the time to code -- gratefully busy in film), the best way I've felt I can contribute is end-user feedback and bug reports. If the dev's consider this request and decide they don't want to change it, they're always welcome to change the status to "WONTFIX", close it, and call it good. :) It's their project; they have the authority to make it however they want. I don't believe that approaching a request from this position is detrimental to progress, yeah? I trust they have a vision, roadmap, direction, etc. and allocate their time however they see best to reach their goals. 2) I know the feeling when it gets down to the nuts and bolts of editing. For sure. I've also always sympathized with the dev's often challenging level of resources and high demands. One of my key desires when I offer suggestions is that my feedback (coupled with information-dense research) would allow them to create a product more users would be willing to contribute, financially, to. More funding means more time to keep doing what they're passionate about. But in order to reach a target audience, you have to market to them. Marketing, among many things, requires an appearance that attracts the target market. Hence, this feature-bug's existence. Without feedback (whether it seems relevant or not) there's no way to no the most effective areas of improvement. I believe there are many priorities when creating a product of any kind: production, QA, and marketing are just a few, yet all of these are relevant priorities. How and when the devs choose to allocate their time to each area is their business. They have contributors (hopefully) working on all of those fronts. That's where the strength of the community can come in. Farid, another contributor, has done an incredible job at raising community awareness and attracting new users. If Kdenlive scores, for example, an interview on the Linux Action Show or some other tech broadcast, I believe it would be a well-worth endeavor to have someone from the team be interviewed for PR and marketing purposes -- even if it does take some time away from development, because I've seen the impact of marketing. I hope this helps understand where I'm coming from, and why I believe that feedback like this is important. :) The more knowledge a company has from their target audience about their product, the better, IMHO. Sidenote: I'm considering this the final poll results: 35 votes total, 23 for straight corners, 12 for rounded. I think JB and the team know me well enough by now to know they're always welcome to take the info' and feedback I provide and do whatever the want with it. :) Truly appreciate the feedback Steve. Cheers! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
