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Requesting Features - How to get attention from developers?

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Sunday, August 8th 2004, 6:32am

Requesting Features - How to get attention from developers?

Hello!

I am pretty new to the KDE community (or is it Kommunity? :P )

I noticed that at kde-look.org users often post mockups and suggestions about missing features or interface improvements...
So lately, I thought why not work some of my own ideas out and post them?

!!!shameless-plug-alert!!! :wink:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=14992
(btw, the nick is different, but it's me nevertheless... )

However, since some pointed out they would be glad to see this-or-that in the next KDE release, some question came to my mind:
  • If one is not capable of actively contributing code, how does one get noticed by the developers?

  • How big are the chances, anyway, that KDE developers would ever stumble over such user suggestions in some forum on the net, not to say consider integrating them in KDE?

  • How do feature request get on their schedule?
    Don't they have already enough work with squishing bugs and such?

  • Should I file feature request as bugs, even if they would be very complex and labour-intensive?
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Sunday, August 8th 2004, 1:30pm

Nice ideas!

However the string used as the URL for recent IO slave is not a valid URI.

I am not sure how many KDE developers read kde-look.org, very likely not the ones from the core team.

It might be possible to reach some on IRC or in your case you could discuss it on kde-usability

But anything not reported on bugs.kde.org is very likely lost, as the developers tend to have quite full TODO lists and will only check bugs.kde.org when needing new ideas.

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Thursday, August 19th 2004, 9:33pm

this is a nice idea, esp the way files are shown (eg the pdfs) thats really nice. good mockups too. but I'm no dev, if I was, I'd help out on this ;-)
Hope reiserFS can help (in performance and ease of writing this) and they dont implement a database (like macintosh does) which slows down the whole system and sucks memory.

And I whould love it if this got into KDE 4.... so please continue trying to get some attention ;-)
btw it is already evolving isnt it? you might try to write the idea(s) donw very precise, like how things are done exactly. so they can use it as a whitepaper - it'll save alot time for them. setup a website/wiki for it, maybe even some patches can get posted there.
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