https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467192
--- Comment #5 from Felix Ernst <felixer...@kde.org> --- Well, I am not sure what I am supposed to tell you. I do my development for KDE in my free time as a volunteer without payment. We are not payed to fix those bugs, so expecting anything to happen from our side is already a bit ill-advised. In this case though, we did actually fix the bug (AFAIK), so that's all we do about it. Dolphin has never had the concept of a long term support version. We release a new Dolphin version three times a year currently and support each of these versions with bugfixes for that third of a year. Now Ubuntu by the company Canonical comes along and offers a so-called long term support (LTS) version of their distribution. The idea of this LTS version is that it will receive security fixes for some amount of years (https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-is-an-ubuntu-lts-release). They aren't even claiming that they will provide bug-fixes, only security fixes. So in this case they are true to their word. In the end, there is probably simply not enough money in this business to fix annoyances like these in older versions. I am not sure how much money you might have paid for your distribution, but none of it landed in the pockets of the KDE contributors that maintain Dolphin. If it was a good use of my time to maintain old versions instead of improving future releases, either because of a financial or a "the greater good" incentive, I wouldn't mind doing it. As it currently stands though, it isn't really feasible for us to provide long term support versions of Dolphin for free. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
