Just look at bugs.kde.org … there are a ridiculous number of bugs, most don’t get fixed.
KDE to do better.
Everyone does what they want, not what needs to be done.
The project lacks true leadership and any effective form of organizational oversight; to make sure what needs to get done is getting done.
Three of which I use(d), especially Cover Switch.
LOL, so because they had fewer bug reports they assumed it was not used. Great logic there …
Then use the resources available to make it more stable. Prioritize bug fixing over silly, flashy, pointless new “features”. Which just add more bugs and more regressions that don’t get fixed.
There are fewer “showstopping” bugs causing crashes, but the combined number of little bugs is getting ridiculous … hence the 1000 cuts reference.
Updating, yes. Improving, no. The last couple of releases have been bug ridden and a step backwards IMHO.
Silly statement.
Prioritize bugs more over new “features” for a while, especially long standing bugs of importance. Like multi-monitor, which is a show.
Same effort, no whipping, different priority for some developers.
How is it silly? Who are you to tell volunteer developers how to spend their time, and what issues to prioritise?
They are obviously not bothered enough by these these supposed bugs you mention to consider them a priority, and it’s probably more fun for them to program new features. Why would you have a say in any of that? They are not your employees.
Why should they be bothered? That’s the real question… I maybe get why you are bothered (though I have not experienced any of the issues you’re mentioning), but why should anyone else care? What are you doing to incentivise them to fix things that are bothering you?
Hence I said, perhaps the project leaders ought to whip their volunteers a bit more.
How else are they going to force them to work on it? This is mostly a volunteer effort, very few programmers who contribute to KDE are paid.
I’m just pointing out that what you are advocating for is slavery. These volunteers owe you nothing. And they owe project leaders nothing, too. Their time and effort is a gift we all benefit from.
Let me ask you again: what are you doing to incentivise them to fix things that are bothering you? If the answer is “nothing” or “only complain online about it”, then the question is: why should they care?
Of course I am. These people are being stolen, sold and forced into servitude.
They are volunteering to help the project already. They care. If they didn’t care they would not volunteer.
People who volunteer for projects they believe in generally don’t do whatever they want.
Usually they say they want to help and ask how they can help. In my experience anyway. Nobody demands. They just want to help.
There are organizational hierarchies in all charitiable / volunteer run projects to organize the volunteers to get the various jobs done, usually based on their skillset, available time and interest.
Nobody is forced to do anything. They will be asked, politely. If they choose to help they will. If they don’t they won’t.
What we are talking about is managing available resources effectively. Resources that want to help already. This is how all charitable / volunteer organizations are run.
They obviously care, KDE Plasma is a great DE, and on Arch-based systems, one that is used the most.
I am not the one saying that they do not care. But they obviously do not care about the same specific issues that you care about (otherwise you wouldn’t be complaining about it). That is what I was asking about. Why should they accommodate your specific requests?
That is why I do currently not use kde, couldn’t stand it for more than a week. The multi-monitor setup and screen scaling on high dpi laptop is not consistent. The day that is fixed I likely will try it again. Probably have to wait they focus more on Wayland. Gnome got that part done nicely despite all the criticism on their project.
A lot of people complain about multi-monitor setup on KDE, but I have no issues with that.
That’s probably because I have two identical monitors, and my scaling factor is 1. Your mileage may vary.
My point is that it is unreasonable to expect volunteer programmers to prioritise your issues over what they want to work on. If you are really bothered by it, you should consider contributing to the project, either financially, or though writing code. Just whining about it and acting entitled does nobody any good.
I completely disagree with you, and probably many other users, too, given how popular KDE Plasma is.
Personally, I have no issues with Plasma. Literally not a single one. I haven’t noticed a bug in over 6 months.
So, this definitely looks like an issue with your specific setup. How common it is, is quite irrelevant, since volunteer programmers do not owe their users anything.
However, if you consider paying for it, you might get your specific issue addressed.
Look, I spend 10 hours a day in front of this computer. I haven’t noticed any bug at all. This is not to say that there aren’t any, just that my workflow is such that I do not encounter any.
So don’t you c’mon man @ me
Why? I’ve never encountered any of those bugs in my regular use.
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