Hi,

I thought I'd have a look what the future brings (with 4.5 being delayed to next week and all), and upgraded to SVN Trunk during the night. Menu Help / About now says "Platform Version 4.5.62 (KDE 4.5.62 (KDE 4.6 >= 20100729))".

Now, the first thing that bugs me, is, that my "system tray" area now looks just plain ugly, comparable to a garbage dump:



whereas it looked quite ok before, in good old 4.4.5:



Are there some secret config options I can set via some rc-file? Or do I have to start hacking on those plasmoids myself?

Patrick.

Indeed, this appears to be quite a regression. The Hardware Temperature applet does not appear to be functioning correctly in the Panel. This is a bug, and cannot be resolved by editing configuration files. Please file a bug at bugs.kde.org

Ok, I filed Bug #246915 and Bug #246916, and commented on Bug #244096 and Bug #243886.

you know, Patrick, i saw this thread pop up in the plasma irc channel (they are automatically relayed there so we can track them) and i came right over to see what the problem was. i clicked through to the bug reports (glad they are filed so we can track work on them) and on the third one i find a mildly snarky comment that has nothing to do with the problem or helping it get fixed.

most of our users would like the developers to be engaged and friendly, working on issues of importance to them. here's a hint for you: making remarks that amount to little more than passing swipes isn't how you accomplish that.

instead of finding some well documented errors that need addressing and feeling like the best thing i can do is run off and fix the highlighted issue, i'm left thinking, "Well, these things need to be fixed, and I'll just have to ignore that our users are not particularly friendly, because despite that these things do need fixing." nothing like good motivation, huh?

when ever a user gets treated poorly by a developer, all hell breaks loose. when a user does it to a developer? it's par for the course. indeed, it happens regularly.

i'm quite tired of that double standard.

Hi Aaron,

it seems I hit the wrong note there - I'm probably reading too much in Gentoo's bugtracker Sorry for that.
Honestly, I didn't want to be unfriendly - I know how Free Software works, and that, if in doubt, it's my own fault, not having done the work myself, to my satisfaction.
Maybe I was a bit disappointed because of the regressions I saw when trying out SVN trunk (those visual glitches were one thing, bigger problems came when I tried Kontact/KMail - but that belongs into another sub-forum, and into other bug reports - I know there are huge changes going on, and regressions are to be expected).

Anyway, I'll refrain from snarky comments in the future, and try to do more testing and fixing myself, if I can.

Thanks for all your work within KDE!