Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request for corrective action before release

[Lee <ler762@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM tomas wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 11:41:20AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed that the Cc list is missing the Pope, the President, the
> > Chancellor, the Chairperson of the Central Committee, Udo Lindenberg, Neil
> > Armstrong and Jay Leno. The Person who has chosen this Cc list obviously
> > wants an Audience. We should not give them that.
>
> This is incredibly witty,

I thought it was a bit obnoxious.

> but really: was it necessary?

if you want to dismiss the OPs' concerns out of hand without
addressing them.. yeah, probably it was necessary.

> I understand that the original post is not easy to deal with

Really?  If you're not going to do anything about their concerns a bit
of empathy
   .. yes, if you're a long-term user and you've become accustomed to
<whatever default behavior> this is a breaking change
followed with
  .. You can <do something hopefully trivially simple & easy> to get
the old behavior

should be enough.

> (as in most discussions about defaults), but reacting with such
> sarcasm and vitriol, while perhaps at some level rewarding,
> in the end poisons the whole thing for us all.

+1

Lee