address book problems

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Monday 22 March 2010 23:37:20 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > Like I said, the only way that this kind of carelessness (by design or
> > genuine carelessness) is going to change is if the distro packagers lodge
> > a formal protest in the way of boycott. We are not KDE's qa department.
> 
> What do you expect us to do? No longer upgrade, leaving you all with 4.4.1,
> the very release you are complaining about? The only thing we can do is to
> work with upstream on getting the bugs fixed and to ship their bugfix
> releases as they come out. A "boycott" would just cause more problems, it
> wouldn't solve anything.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

I disagree to some extent. The bugs need to be fixed certainly. However, with 
all due respect to everyone. Its time that KDE reallocates all the resources 
that have gone into created a brand new shiny gui with lots of great eye candy 
and place the same effort into fixing outstanding application bugs. For me 
Konqueror needs to stop crashing. It needs to work with major web sites and do 
standard things that every browser does, like playing flash videos at CNN or 
being able to visit scify.com, etc, etc,etc. Kontact needs to come up and not 
complain. I shouldn't have to be playing Akonadi settings, or Nepomuk settings 
gee what a great geek I am (thats a joke :). After all the playing I've done 
with Akonadi over the last couple of days, my filters seemed to have stoped 
working. Frankly... this is getting wearisome. If these things are required 
they should simply start transparently. If data integrity needs to be 
maintained then it should be maintained. And because of the nature of the data 
in Kontact, Kontact should be QAed until tears come out of the developers eyes 
from boredom. If kontact requires all these seperate components to work then 
they should work completely transparently and without interfereing with other 
major subsystems. In my case I have to switch off every Kontact component off 
before I can play a game I'm enjoying under wine. I'm sure that everyone has 
there favorite gripe these days.

And if KDE cannot take a more professional policy regarding development and 
user concerns. Well; at the very least a boycott is in order. Somehow the 
message has got to come across over there that us users are part of the 
equation. Our data, and computing and meaningful feedback are part of what 
enables KDE to evolve. We need to be taken into account. This is not to say 
that I'm expecting 100% bug free code. But when something is released as 
stable. It should be stable. Don't you think?

Eli

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