Re: [Evolution] unsubscribe

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

Thanks for wasting my time reading through your rant. Have fun with
kmail.

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:34 +0200, Krzysztof BÅaszkowski wrote:
> I know another joke like this and it goes as follow:
>
> evolution user wants to write new mail to a recipient from address book.
> the recipient has a few addresses (e.g. company) let's say he has 3. btw
> it is not possible to assign more than 4, why ?
>
> okay, user uses "contacts", selects right recipient and points some
> address in the middle of the list displayed in bottom right window (that
> one with contact's personal information).
>
> user writes mail, sends it and oops, he notices that the mail was sent
> to 1st address from the list of all defined mail addresses.
>
> then he opens contacts again and does a few tests which make him sure
> that no matter which address he pointed the mail composer would use
> always the 1st address from the list.
>
>
> Was it funny ? 
> I think it is far more than winder dll story because it is regarding
> qualifications of evolution developers. (some readers must be told this
> directly)
>
> I found also a rule how these addresses are sorted and it is not
> alphabetical neither doesn't depend on position of email field from
> "open" form (that one for editing contact's properties). cool. it
> depends on something else. i will not tell.
>
>
> But more seriously. I reckon that such errors are not supposed to happen
> in a project which lasts for years. (i would make more allowances if the
> project started 3 months ago). Such errors show only poor code quality
> (people quality) and lack of QA or poor QA quality. (such people should
> be fired out).
>
>
> another my conclusion is that if Novell wants to sell SLEDx with such
> applications then i can say to Novell sales (and i bet not only me),
> sorry folks i will not spend a penny on such crap. (i hope if a few
> "coding" kids were fired then maybe others would do theirs job more
> carefully)
>
> you may don't like words like "crap" or "rubbish" but have you ever
> thought if it changes something ?
>
> i can tell you that it doesn't matter. evolution will not work better if
> you replace something you dislike by word like "a flaw". 
>
> that's it. now i think about unsubscribing because it's a waste of time
> receiving more post. 
>
> one more. openSuse doesn't have gtksudo (why ?) i had to use kdesudo
> otherwise i wouldn't even bother with Gnome. Ksnapshot is also far more
> convenient.
> Krdc too, will not mention Kdiff3.
>
> i consider also moving back to Kmail (under Gnome of course)

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