On Wednesday 07 May 2008 18:00:42 ഓം wrote: > but i would be a really good feature for KDE to automagically convert > old KMailRC into the new *avatar*. And if I go and ask for it in > bugzilla.kde.org, they would treat it as a new feature and would be > put under different category that has lower priority since it may not > be a sh0wstopper! > > How's that for a simplified analysis of the usual situation, the way > most systems work?
I would say yes. Maintaining compatibility between versions and seamlessly upgrading is sometimes challenging and some of those time, even impossible. I had dealt with some really really nasty bugs in such cases personally. May be I am not using any new kmail features.. because my kmailrc(heck the entire ~/.kde) is like 5 years old.. :) But at one time, I remember, kmail explicitly asked me to convert the config. to a new format. In general, I am very glad with kde, the way configuration remains the same over the years. Nothing breaks, things just keep chugging. I know how hard it is to attain it. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
