[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from david's message of 2011-08-09 20:56:12 +0200:
> Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > Excerpts from david's message of 2011-08-09 10:13:51 +0200:
> >> Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> >>> Excerpts from david's message of 2011-08-08 01:32:25 +0200:
> >>>> Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> >>>>> 2011/8/7 Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de>:
> >>>>>> ** Input from the user is important, because that's a whole different view ! **
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> One could support that
> >>>>> by adding direct feedback functionality to the application.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Double-Click Bug-Reports and Feature-Requests
> >>>>> - Integrated, cached User Chat ( + Dev Chat)
> >>>>> - Tips and Hints with Rating possibility
> >>>>> - Integrated News Panel
> >>>>> - user supplied, editable context help updated over the internet
> >>>> Just don't make your app dependent on some specific mail client.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've used K3B for many years now. Twice now, it has popped up asking my 
> >>>> option of the program. It then tries to mail it using KMail, which I 
> >>>> don't have installed. So you'd think it would recognize the failure and 
> >>>> either give me the email text to copy and paste into my mail client of 
> >>>> choice? No, it just hangs forever until I close K3B ...
> >>> That's called integration.
> >> No, it's called bad assumption by the programmer: that just because 
> >> someone uses one KDE program, they use them all.
> > 
> > But that's what integration currently means, make a program work well
> > with others that belong to the same DE, forget about everything else.
> 
> No, when something your program is trying to use doesn't exist or is not 
> set up, you don't hang and become unresponsive. You check for error 
> responses to your system call, terminate the attempt, and tell your user 
> that you (the program) can't do what you're trying to do. Ideally, you 
> also tell them why ("KMail not installed"). Then you do a fallback; in 
> this case, you display a message box containing the information you're 
> trying to send, along with the address to send it to, and ask the user 
> to copy and paste it into an email using their mail client.

Ah, sorry, I missed that it was completely unresponsive, sorry. I hope
they'll fix this error now that they (maybe) heard of it.