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@nora
If you don't fix it, then close it.
But you don't dare do that either, do you?
And one could also argue differently:
the KDE developers don't give a shit what the users want, because they only want to do their own stuff.
Ignoring a bug with almost 500 comments and insulting the users (you're not the first to get mad at me for this) shows me in any case: you do your thing and don't care about the userbase.
This way of developing is the reason why KDE never made it to the Company desktops.
@aschnefuenfzehn @nora Oh... They care a lot about the users
After all these volunteers were once just users. But that doesn't that they will impliment every feature every user wants. Yeah, even o
If the feature request has 500 comments.
And companies most definitely does use KDE. NASA, LERCS, LIGO, CERN, ALBA Synchtron - and lot of scienty places, in building the first Avatar film and BlueSystem also uses KDE Apps *and* Plasma. I feel like I missed something - oh yeah - Valve.
@whjjackwhite @nora
a) This is not a "feature request", this is a bug
b) Nate Graham himself has promised that the bug will be fixed (in case you haven't read the 500 bug reports)
c) KDE is not only developed by volunteers.
See: https://curius.de/2021/05/open-source-entwicklung-freiwillige-oder-firmen/
KDE has unfortunately not disclosed the affiliation of its developers,
but due to known sponsorships, e.g. by blue systems, one can assume that not all are volunteers here either.
@whjjackwhite @nora
The lack of transparency leads one to suspect that other companies also pay permanent developers. Among others Trolltech and SuSE.
d) The "companies" you mention are for the most part not companies but scientific institutions. You can quickly compile something there if it doesn't work. This is not the case with companies that have to earn money.
e) The KDE I find at Cern has the version number 3.
Look, it comes down to the fact that as far as I know, the vast majority of KDE developers are volunteers with their own lives. There was a given explanation for why it hasn't been fixed, it was complicated code that was hard to maintain. Its not as simple as someone writing code to reimplement the feature, the feature also needs to be maintained which is a lot of work for a project with so few resources compared to proprietary projects that can afford to pay hundreds of full time developers.
People requesting that feature to come back are just kind of rude about it, skipping out on basic manners. Personally if I were a KDE developer I wouldn't want to work on a feature after all that.