Please use the bugzilla for bugreports or feature requests! 22 August, 2008
Unfortunately many people don’t use bugreports, maybe because they came from Windows where bugreports are not present and not encouraged. This post is just about this: please use bugreports.
If you find something that you don’t like, something that you think that can be improved, or if you just have an idea, use the bugzilla!
For example: there are some glitches when using a dark gtk+ theme with the murrine/clearlooks engine and…I’ll attach a screenshot…
Or: I would like to have an option to change the progressbar style on my murrine themes…
Or even more: I have made a mockup for the tabs/notebook of murrine, here it is…
So, please click here to send a new bugreport for murrine (development version, svn).
Eheheh… I love the GNOME’s bugzilla logo from andreasn (ops) alberto 
Posted in ArchLinux, Compiz, English, GNOME, GTK, Icons, Metacity, Murrine, Themes |
22 August, 2008 alle 11:30
Bugzilla is precious invention
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22 August, 2008 alle 13:52
But-but the Linux hater says bug reports are futile… http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/08/one-bug-report-to-rule-them-all.html ; )
22 August, 2008 alle 13:53
Cimi, check your references, I did that logo
22 August, 2008 alle 15:28
Haha! Noooo, I did it!!!
Nah, seriosly, Alberto drew it.
22 August, 2008 alle 16:32
Maybe if Bugzilla wasn’t such a steaming pile of shite, you’d receive more bug reports.
22 August, 2008 alle 17:49
[ot] hai un arch-sms
22 August, 2008 alle 17:56
The problem is that bugzilla sucks. Why in the nine hells do you think that someone would want to go to a page, go through a registration form, wait for an email to come in (which may take quite some time in some cases), then go back, log in, and fill in a huge and complex bug report page filled with questions they don’t know the answer to?
Your bug report page needs three things:
A field for name.
A field for email address.
A big text area to type the bug in to.
Login must be _optional_. Use Akismet and/or other anti-spam services to keep spam out of the DB.
Make it fan-fucking-tastically easy for anyone to submit a bug as soon as they encounter the bug. Bugzilla sucks, if you use it, you will NEVER get casual users to report bug. Bugzilla is designed for use as a team coordination center between developers and organized testers. It is not at all designed for being a feedback collection suite for end users.
22 August, 2008 alle 18:44
Agreeing with Sean here. The concept of apport in Ubuntu is great, except… you have to have a Launchpad account. Wtf? If Windows XP could have a feature that sent Microsoft anonymous crash information 7 years ago, I’m sure Linux can do the same.
22 August, 2008 alle 19:09
Linux already send anonymous crash information since years (bug-buddy).
But this post is about feature request, not freezes.
23 August, 2008 alle 6:36
“they came from Windows where bugreports are not present ”
I think you don’t use windows so much
Anyway, good post about Bugzilla, but, if in windows it is not encouraged, is it in Linux ? I don’t think so, if there is a reason for this post
Ciao cimi !
Scrivi un po di più su questo blog che ci fa piacere sempre 
23 August, 2008 alle 15:55
Unfortunately, bug databases just aren’t a great way to track feature requests– even the name puts people off. “The software isn’t buggy, I just want a new feature. Why would I file a bug?”
7 December, 2008 alle 12:01
Could you link to it from the Murrine site? I had to find this post with a Google search to find out where to report bugs…