[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[david]

Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> 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.

I haven't run the KDE4 version of K3B long enough yet to know if it's 
going to trigger the same message. And they're not maintaining KDE3 anymore.

-- 
David
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