I really do think bugs will hurt the long term health of the project. Up through 11.04 I had always gotten a few bugfixes with each upgrade. I had a few random bugs that I was living with, but for the most part everything worked. I had 3d acceleration with my nvidia card, I could use a second monitor, I could close the lid to suspend the machine, and in general it just behaved as expected. With 11.10 I lost the ability to suspend (now the machine becomes non-responsive when I close the lid), I gained a 3d rendering bug that was originally reported a month after 11.04 that affects my second monitor, I cannot even rely on the pixmaps for my icons loading because sometimes I get just get blank little rectangles. If I wanted mysterious bugs I would have stuck with windows, most Linux advocates tout stability however I cannot see doing that with 11.10. By any measure Gentoo was more stable than this release :( .
Because no one else seemed willing to check, compact view does remove the needless amount of margin, but also switches to a more list-like look and changes the scrolling to horizontal. I checked in Nautilus 2.32.2.1 the version that ships with 11.04 with all updates applied. What kind of QA process is there before a release, how can I help with that? On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 22:15 -0400, nick rundy wrote: > > Yet the bug has existed for more than 3 years. Sadly, the same can be > > said for many other bugs. > > To be fair to the bug: > > * No one answered the question 'did you try compact layout' > * Nautilus is a 'special' codebase which I wouldn't want to touch again > this side of the 21st century, ugly and duplicative spaghetti. > * Anything to do with how something looks, workflow or speed is not > going to get fixed by the fire fighters or cathedral builders. > * These types of bugs are too big/complex for quick patches and too > small or unimportant for critical attention. > * Nouser continues to pay for bug fixes, no economics and no other > relationship between programmer and user. The gnome programmer deals > with bugs as he feels like it and expects patches. > > I understand your point Nick, I'd really like a cycle that focuses > _only_ on bug fixing and nothing else. But I'd also like a cycle that > took everyone off coding to train a 100 new kernel hackers and 50 new > xorg slaves. > > If wishes could be put in dishes the world would be delicious. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- - Joe Toppi (402) 714-7539 top...@gmail.com
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