On 07/03/2014, at 9:29 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There are some > major changes, the introduction of Baloo being first and foremost among them. > > But there is more. We (the promo team) would like to write an article to ask > our community to help test this release and we'd appreciate it if you could > tell us WHAT exactly could use some extra testing!
While we are on the topic of testing, how much testing is done of KDE's cross-platform and cross-desktop implementations? Just in the last week I have seen cases of a guy on Apple OS X who could not build kde4-baseapps and a guy on Windows who downloaded *one* KDE game and it cost him 1 Gb of disk space (1 Gigabyte). On Apple OS X, with which I am familiar, the Macports guys do a great job of porting and distributing KDE libraries and apps, but several apps are severely broken. On my own system, I have built Dolphin, but it crashes before showing any window. I cannot tell you why, because Dr Konqui does not work either … :-( This sort of thing does discredit to KDE, which contains many fine apps and utilities and is a fine desktop on its home turf, in Linux. But in the Apple environment, when discussing KDE apps, I have even seen 4-letter words bandied about … :-( Maybe it is time some KDE guys had a joint sprint with Apple and Windows guys and got to the bottom of such problems. And it would be nice to have some regular testing … :-) All the best, Ian W. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
