I know this is kind of off topic, but does it seem to anyone else that an @kdemail.net addy is kind of like a fake @kde.org address?
On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Markus Slopianka <[email protected]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 13 Oktober 2011 17:30:28 Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> I don't know anyone involved in Kubuntu >> development who considers shipping OOo/LO as anything other than a workaround >> for deficiencies in KOffice. > > LibreOffice without KDE integration works better than with it. Yet you ship > it and you are > so proud that that buggy package was written by a Kubuntu dude. > >> What patches? We make a few configuration changes and add one widget to the >> default panel for Ayatana stuff. In some cases we shipped things a release >> before upstream did, but the patches are all upstream. > > There is still no Qt release that includes the appmenu patch which entered > Kubuntu in > alpha or beta stage loooooong ago. > Kubuntu defaulted to Raster rendering in Qt long before it was declared > stable in Qt > (AFAIK only the upcoming Qt 4.8 version officially supports Raster). > >> I don't code in C++, so I am rather prevented. > > Well, others here do. > > >> If it was going to take another year to get right, then it shoulnd't have >> been released. IMO upstream should release working software. > > Is that so? Bold words from a contributor to a distribution that is widely > known to have > the worst KDE experience out there. > Fedora and openSUSE chose to make Kontact work better by defaulting to SQLite. > Kubuntu OTOH can't even decide which package manager to use! My favourite > past choice of a > package manager was Adept which entered Kubuntu in beta stage, never left > beta stage, and > in the KDE4 version even crashed on dist-upgrades, leaving users with a > broken system if > they didn't know how to resume the upgrade process via aptitude. Then Kubuntu > defaulted to > KPackageKit (also at pre-1.0 stage) and now Muon which I have yet to try but > judging from > Kubuntu's past decisions when it comes to package managers, it likely sucks > as well > (although you use a post-1.0 version for a change). > > So, dear downstream. Instead of bitching against the community that secures > the income for > some of you, better roll up your sleeves and start fixing bugs in Kontact 4.8. > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
