KDE struggles with feature requests

“In a posting to the kde-devel mailing list, Pau Garcia i Quiles
wondered where KDE 3 features that were missing from KDE 4 should
be collected. He noted that there are various places users were
complaining about these missing features (including an openSUSE web
page that collects them), but no central location for KDE to track
such things. His suggestion: “Can we start something like that in
UserBase, for people to tell us what they miss in KDE4 from KDE3?
Or have a special category in Bugzilla?”

“That set off a bit of a rant from Aaron J. Seigo about user
complaints:

“[…] there’s a certain sort of bullying going on there where
certain individuals, fewer with each release i might add, feel that
if they just SHOUT LOUD AND ANNOYINGLY ENOUGH AT US that we’ll
relent, break our designs, go back on what we’re trying to do and
give them what they are used to at the expense of everyone
else.

“[…] but i won’t go back on various design decisions and throw
out all the benefits we’re reaping due to those decisions. i refuse
to fall into some misguided
knee-jerk-to-the-latest-random-user-moaning design
“methodology””

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