16 Apr
2012
16 Apr
'12
7:14 a.m.
In case of small and not well coordinated manpower
the
project should think hardly of its priorities. In this project the goal and
essential priority is Usability. This is about numerous UI bugs and
blunders, subquality work that should be completed. This makes clear
direction. Not mere wandering in woods of code. That will put project
in wrong direction.
Timothy, please, remove TQ -> Q proxying. This direction
is not good and sooner or later will be reverted. Better sooner, less
double work.
I admit I have my frustrations with the TQ layer. We have yet to see any direct benefit
that I am aware. But I don't have the energy or knowledge to do anything about that. I
want to believe there is a long term benefit and I'm willing to let the issue go at
that. For now.
The issue could be water under the bridge if we addressed the bug tracker. When usability
is restored to at least 3.5.10 days then I believe users will ignore the TQ debate.
(Developers might not but users will.)
With all of the "Inadvertent TQ" patches I pushed we now can say that
inadvertent TQ conversions are unlikely to be the cause of a bug. Although, as David and I
discovered this weekend, merely restoring the inadvertent changes can still leave a hidden
bug --- something that was patched to overcome the original inadvertent changes.
Some of the usability bugs that are irritating people:
956 Kdcop: Fails to run
922 When logging out with unsaved file, trinity does not ask to save it
897 sftp kioslave fails to parse urls in konqueror address bar
859 Kaffeine does not block screensaver
760 TDE exits too slow
714 kio_man does not work under RHEL
657 Can't start KWord or KPresenter from T-Menu
615 KSVG shows only black previews
586 3.5.13 regression: kio-locate-trinity doesn't show any results in Konqueror
407 [Regression] KMail text disappears
258 ksmserver: Logout confirmation fadeaway is too slow with older hardware
Possibly fixed by reverting previous patches:
927 Kate: Can't concurrently run kate with tdesu (revert patch from bug report 394)
756 Konqueror: Does not update file pane with file changes (7 year old patch!)
692 Kate: focus is broken when using the --use parameter (Needs focus patch and special
application settings)
406 [Regression] KMail always checks mail after sending
394 Problems with DCOP After Using kdesu
The SAK issues:
925 [kdesktop] SAK driven secure dialog is not available for use
906 SAK realization is mostly buggy for KDM
898 tsak process taking 90-100% of CPU
Then there are issues such as:
640 .kthemestylerc.lock is created in $TDEDIR/share/config
301 Kompare does not maintain a correct mru list
293 Kde-config Incorrectly Creates a Profile Folder in the System root directory
259 Kompare does not always terminate properly, leaving the process running
We can fix these bugs, which would put the TQ issue behind us.
Darrell