Re: [opensuse] KDE accessibility. was Bye bye SuSE?

Am Freitag, 31. Oktober 2008 19:39:07 schrieb John Andersen:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Perhaps I am misunderstanding what I have been reading but one can hide
the taskbar using a "button" (its at either the left- or the right-hand
side depending on your choice of setup).

But why bother with this additional selection of a button when the
taskbar can Autohide and be brought up by simply taking the cursor to
the bottom of the screen?

But Basil, why should I change the way I want to do things just because
the Devs decided to leave out this useful feature (hide button)?

Because nobody cares. It's very easy. There are developers that create
software. You can pay them to or you can ask them to. In the latter case they
do not owe you anything and if you do not like what they create, just ignore
it. But since developers are users too, there will be developers that use
feature x, it might take some time until they implement it if nobody else
does, but they will. If there is not a single dev that wants to implement a
feature and not a single person/company that pays somebody to implement that
feature, it is just not important enough, since nobody forbids to add code and
things like a button to hide the panel are no rocket sience, so really just a
singel dev with one or two days of time at max would be enough.

Those whining forget the above. they think they represent a large enough group
to have a valid point, yet they don't, since if they would, there would be
somebody with the same need and adding code. Just think about how many users
there are and how many devs and only a single one of them would be needed.

Another point is that those telling the world that KDE4 will fail because KDE3
users will run away forget that nobody cares, simply because it does not make
sense. If KDE4 was losing a considerable amount of users without gaining any,
they would also lose developers, because a percentage X of the users you lose
are developers. It would just be hilarious to claim that in the end KDE is
only used by developers. But even if, let's say the majority of users or only
a third or even a fourth would think KDE3 is better than KDE4 will be if it
continues as it does now, then KDE4 would die at some point, because only the
minority likes it and the majority will keep on using KDE3 and since X percent
of all users are developers, there would be enough developers to take KDE3's
code and please the majority.

So either way, all whining is just pathetic. If the majority is on your side
KDE3 will survive KDE4, if not, you are a minority that does not even get
enough users (and hence developers) to maintain KDE3, while KDE is not only
maintained, but added to.

If KDE3 phases out at some point, be it tomorrow or in a year or two and you
cannot use KDE4, use something else. If feature x does not get implemented, it
is because there is not enough demand, if there were 1000 people that need it
(still a very small minority) to work, there would be one dev amongst them or
one company that would pay a dev to implement it for their customers. If not,
guess what, there are not that many people as you thought that need that
fetaure before liking KDE4. That's the measureable reality, not those shouting
the loudest.

Yet rather than investing the money into contributing to KDE4 people threaten
to use it to migrate their whole company to Gnome or whatever, which just
shows how shortsighted and useless their contribution is, nothing but
complaining and self-centeredness.

Sven
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