https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456408
--- Comment #12 from mouse <shattered_min...@yahoo.com> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > > Whereas implementing the features into these various widgets would be much > > less redundant and easier to maintain. > Ah, but maintained by who? Once you've contributed code upstream to > implement a particular specific niche feature, it's easy to wander away and > leave the burden to someone else, which is in practice what we tend to see. > That's why we encourage people who are willing to take on the maintenance > burden to fork the widget, add their feature, put it on store.kde.org, and > maintain it. It's true that this maintenance burden isn't trivial. But > that's the nature of maintaining niche features. There's no free lunch. > > You can ask for development assistance in the #kde-devel room on Matrix; see > https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development#Communicate_with_the_team You realize you're talking about the burden of an extra developmental workload, while you simultaneously still have at least 5 redundant widgets on this topic alone, right? Two of them are just a copy paste of the same widget, but with an icons-only setting hard enabled. And the pager is made nearly completely pointless just by allowing the user to step through virtual desktops via mousing up and down on the task manager. So that's another widget who's usefulness is negated. But I agree with your sentiment. Neither one of us wants the burden of trying to maintain usability for every possible layout with this, or any, widget. However, one of us gets paid to do it and is asking the other to do it for free (and in the downstream no less). So you can see how your 'no free lunches' sentiment may not be the best argument to make here, right? You're saying 'no free lunches', while also telling me to keep spreading peanut butter onto a thousand different slices of bread. 'No free lunches' means we might as well wave goodbye to store.kde.org. And KDE and even Linux for that matter. Thank you for the link btw. I'll be sure to pick their brains with a bunch of stupid questions later. :P -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
