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

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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

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Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-07-23 11:50 +0200
  Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Yadd <yadd@debian.org> - 2025-07-23 12:00 +0200
  Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2025-07-23 12:40 +0200
    Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-07-23 12:50 +0200
  Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-07-23 12:50 +0200
    Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2025-07-23 16:10 +0200
    Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 02:50 +0200
      Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 09:40 +0200
      Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release tomas@tuxteam.de - 2025-07-24 10:10 +0200
      Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 -  Request for corrective action before release Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 10:30 +0200
    Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request  for corrective action before release Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-07-23 19:30 +0200

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