https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432909
--- Comment #5 from Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> --- Lee, if you are as experienced as you say you are, I am surprised that you did not check up on a few things before going off at half-cock. Firstly, Palapeli is part of the KDE Community software, which is all free and Open Source, so nobody is asking for your money. Should you enjoy any other KDE Community software, it is possible to contribute in a general way, to support general activities of its world-wide membership, such as conferences and travel. Secondly, I have had a look at the source code and I was wrong when I said the rate of saving of Palapeli games is every two seconds. It is actually twice per second! I must say I cannot observe that because it has been some years since I had a "hard disk" that rotates and even longer since I had one with a flashing light. My main disk is a solid-state drive. Thirdly, Albert is not an author or maintainer of Palapeli, but he is a very experienced software engineer in a pan-European software company, as well as being moderator of KDE Games and a KDE Release Manager. So it is disrespectful and uninformed of you to call him half-arsed and a producer of shit. Fourthly, it is a mistake to presume anybody's age or experience on the Internet when you cannot see them or meet them. You might be old enough to have been programming before Albert was born --- you would have to be at least sixty. However, you would have had to be an exact contemporary of Alan Turing to have started programming before I did. That would make you over 100 years old now. I also resent your implication that I, along with Albert, am half-arsed and a writer of shit. I am proud of my programming work over the last 57 years and have had more than one world-class achievement to my credit. Despite that, I am not the author of the few lines of code (out of thousands in Palapeli) that give you offence. In fact I have many times been grateful that they exist and have saved me losing hours of work on a large puzzle with hundreds of pieces. It would NOT be difficult to make the save-interval a configuration item (in seconds, with a default of about 5 seconds and 0 meaning "no saves until Palapeli quits normally"), but I have retired from KDE work and am no longer in a position to make that change. Perhaps you yourself would like to have a go at making the change, if you feel that strongly about the matter. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
