https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481069
--- Comment #7 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> --- (In reply to Flossy Cat from comment #6) > Anyhow, my counterquestion was not rhetorical, but in earnest. I really > think it worth answering, because together we have just demonstrated that a > valuable and powerful feature was removed on a whim without checking its > user base and its UX value: > > How does KDE know which features are unused and how is removal decided? We largely have no idea. It's an unfortunate side effect of our commitment to not spy on our users. It means we're in the dark about what they actually do with our software when they're not somehow making noise about it publicly. Features that get bug reports and that people are talking about in public (on social media, in our forum, in reviews of our software, etc) are features that we know people use. Other ones... well, we don't. We try not to remove stuff for no reason, but when a feature's code is old and flawed at a fundamental level and it seems like it's blocking an effort to do something new, that's when the feature is going to end up on the chopping block rather than getting fixed if no one can find anyone who uses it. This is obviously pretty flawed but I don't know how we can do any better without turning to the dark side and spying on our users. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
