https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502134
--- Comment #6 from Daniel <siliz...@mail.com> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > Of course decisions are made by a small group of people — the developers. > Who else could decisions be made by? We can't take a poll of every Plasma > user in existence or build some kind of global UX direct democracy (and if > we could and did, you probably wouldn't like the results it produced!). All > we can do is apply our own judgment to our understanding of UX and public > opinion, understanding that these are flawed and imperfect. As such, it's > possible this decision was the wrong one, and if that becomes clear, we'll > revert it — same as any decision we later realize was wrong. > > I'm not sensing a lot of willingness to engage with the fact that there are > trade-offs and nuances here in the messy real world, so I'm not sure there's > much value to be gained in continuing, and this will be my last comment in > here. Thank you for the clarity, Nate. What you've just expressed sounds more like Redmond than any truly open community. Decisions being made centrally, internally, by a small group, without direct input from the broader user base – that's exactly what Open Source was created to counter: closed circles, opaque direction shifts, and changes presented as "just the way it is." What bothers me most is that you seem to treat it as completely normal that fundamental UX changes are pushed through without broad consultation – under the pretense that including users would be too complicated. That’s not openness. That’s paternalism. And it doesn't fit the KDE I once knew. If this is the new reality, then I do at least thank you for laying the cards on the table. It makes it clear that the decision-making in this project is far less open than it’s presented to the outside world. Too bad that kind of honesty wasn’t communicated upfront — it would have saved many from holding on to the illusion of shared ownership. At least now we know where we stand: on the sidelines, watching. So much for open dialogue. **As the saying goes: “If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu.”** -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
