On 10/26/21 6:20 AM, lejeczek via users wrote:
> Anything really, but don't keep users in the dark .. perhaps because
> they are all simpletons and.... devs know better.
Or, as I often suspect, the devs are thinking, "We don't use that so
there's no need to provide it."
Developers are a scarce resource, and many are employed to work
on large systems. Add to that the fragmentation of the linux ecosystem
with X.org, Wayland, Gnome, KDE, etc. and it is clear that triaging
is a constant problem. Devs have to choose between fixing bugs that
break basic functionality and adding "convenience" features. I think the
problem is not so much being unwilling to support features a developer
doesn't use as the difficulty for developers who are not familiar with the
use case to get the details of a feature right.
We are talking about linux. When such features are important to some
use case, then the best approach is for a user familiar with the use case
to submit a bug report upstream that includes a patch. In my experience,
the community is generally helpful when someone needs help with some
details of implementing a feature.