On 10/2/2014 12:04 PM, jonathon <[email protected]> wrote: > The devs have no idea how people use the product, and thus only test > a minuscle subset of available features, functions, and > capabilities.
Relevant and true to an extent and in some cases, certainly, but I'm sorry, cut/copy/paste functionality with respect to input fields is bare minimum basic *fundamental* behavior, and 'knowing people will want to use the fields in such a manner' - well, if a developer truly has such a limited imagination, then I highly doubt they would make a competent developer. Bigger picture question - which is more reasonable: a) expecting an end user to test every, single feature among the thousands of features provided by Libreoffice, before every single update, or on every single daily build? or b) expecting the actual developers who are doing the coding to do at least some bare, minimum testing of the code that they, themselves are writing, with respect to the feature(s) said code is affecting? Asked another way with respect to this specific issue: Which is more reasonable: a) expecting an end user to find and discover that one very specific feature that they use among hundreds (or more) of other features has a bug? or b) expecting the developer doing the actual coding for a very specific feature/function, to find a bug with respect to the most basic and fundamental aspect of said feature? The developer *knows* what they are working on, and *knows* what the basic functionality should be. I'm being accused of 'refusing to help' by way of QA, testing, etc. Tell me - how are *users* supposed to know that a major feature they rely on on a daily basis is being replaced? In my opinion, this new feature (and others like it - especially when it is *replacing* an *existing* feature - should have been announced right here on the users list, with requests to test it. Another major point being missed here is that we aren't talking about some obscure bug that only happens under certain circumstances. We are talking about the inability to paste into input fields, in every case, on every platform, in every version since 4.2.x. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
