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What are we supposed to be looking at. I've searched that entire thread for the word "stupid" and I can't find it. I also don't see the rudeness.


"Is there any valid reason to change the code except Chromium? In general I am against changing our code to fix broken applications and Chromium is broken. They should just use the system titlebars and not do their own stupid things."

From: https://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4396/


That is an attack on code, not people. It has no resemblance to Shuttleworth's remarks.


> "They should just use the system titlebars and not do their own stupid things."

This is a personal insult.


The word "They" refers to Chromium.

Saying that a program and its behavior is stupid, is not a personal insult. For example, I think my gnome3 fallback menu bar is stupid for crashing when loading its icons for a particular sub menu (running unstable). I do not however think that gnome3 developers are stupid.


Have you reported the bug upstream? I'm a GNOME developer and I haven't heard of this crash.


No I have not. On Debian Unstable, I always give the bugs a few months to sort themselves out. Could be a problem in the packages recent dependencies, graphic driver regression, or who knows.

I also want to do some preliminary debugging of the issue before sending in a bug report.


He's criticizing a design decision, an inetention, not a bug.


I know people are prone to take such remarks personally, but it's directed at the action, not the person. "You did something stupid" is not "You are stupid".


It's inflammatory, sure. But it's not a personal insult, the "they" is collective.


    (map stupid-behavior! chrome-developers)


Honestly, Chrom* is broken everywhere. Particularly in XP. I have mine black and the bastard Chrom* chooses to be blue.

In general Google apps play very bad with desktop standards. Logical, regarding their position about the desktop.

I just have to use Chrom* because Opera committed suicide.


I have mine black and the bastard Chrom chooses to be blue.*

The horror.


XP? Really?

It's time to let go of a 12-year-old OS.


I triple boot XP, Windows Seven and Ubuntu Saucy.

Some things (some games I like, ripping disks) are better done in XP.


> I just have to use Chrom* because Opera committed suicide.

12.16 still works nicely (apart from Google+, which takes up unreasonable amounts of CPU time, but unfortunately there are some people there worth reading).


Sounds like an argument about the code which could have done without the word "stupid", but it is not rude at all. And it does not attack any person.


Honestly, I agree.


I guess she meant this thread https://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4396/ Don't know if that counts as rude or not.


Click through to the linked thread - https://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4396/




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