On Wednesday 28 January 2009 00:19:49 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 21:57:09 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> That's the problem, people want stuff that they can't provide
> themselves and goes against what the ones doing the work decide to do.
Forgive me Arthur but that's just plain rude.
Nothing rude there. It's just a plain statement of fact.
Software is meant to be used
by users. If I'm misunderstanding what you're implying by the your post
then please forgive me. But even the most intelligent and best informed
group of people can make mistakes in judgment. The most famous examples is
the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Not interested in politics. Please drop that.
User's can't provide the stuff that developers can provide
because they
aren't developers. And developers should expect some negative feedback when
they don't meet users expectations, or go off in directions that proves to
be in error regarding the user experience. This is not a slight regarding
the hard work and skill that goes into development.
So a baker that doesn't make your favourite bread is making a big mistake?
And no... you can't please all the people all the time. But us
users are
the ones that actually use that which is developed and we should be
respected. That we didn't provide more feedback is our error. But on the
other hand, we really didn't have that much experience on which to base an
opinion other than the quality and skill that went into KDE 3.x.
More than likely because of the great programming that went into KDE 3.x
and the hype surrounding 4.x we all were expecting the first release to on
par. And a lot of us were disappointed that it wasn't. And in many ways
still isn't. But it is definitely getting there.
I think all are agreed that enthusiasm in many quarters did cause hype that
lead to disappointment.
To paraphrase Rex in a previous post. There really isn't any
point to
crying over spilled milk.
I still do not agree that it is spilled milk. We should agree to disagree,
drop the subject, and get on with life.
Anne