Comment 52 for bug 342923
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| Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh) wrote | #52 |
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Confirming this bug on Asus EeePC 1002HA, "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller".
Upgrading from Kubuntu Intrepid + KDE 4.2 (PPA) to Jaunty severely broke KDE graphics.
First things I noticed were serious issues with graphics elements redrawing, i.e. KMail toolbar disappearing and showing desktop background instead until mouse is hovered on this zone, causing graphics elements to reappear.
Well, it was perfect in Intrepid + KDE 4.2, broke in Jaunty.
If I wear my "dummy user hat" this is unacceptable, and I'm considering ranting loud about general Ubuntu regressions at each and every new version.
I've been a Linux user and supporter since 10+ years and sometimes a little code contributor in the past. I'm now professionally managing parks of Linux machines as well as advising non-I.T. friends and relatives.
From both points of view it is completely unacceptable that when performing a version upgrade, oh, graphics get broke on this machine, sound is lost on that machine, fglrx driver doesn't exist anymore for ATI cards, KDE SSL certs support has been broke for the whole KDE 4.x branch and not fixed even if bugs reports have been made 10 months ago, kernel is now compiled without USB_persist, WPA2 isn't supported anymore in Jaunty, Xen Dom0 kernel is missing since Intrepid and on...
What the fsck is going on ?
A geek can live with that and spend 1 day trying to figure out ONE problem, dig into a config file, read forums, recompile kernel on ONE machine when upgrading, but how could a professional managing a park of machine stand to live with that at each upgrade ?
How could a professional tolerate that SSL certs support suddently disappears between KDE 3.x and 4.x and nothing is done in 10 months to fix it ?
And how could non-I.T. more or less clueless beginner users (at whom Ubuntu also aims) find acceptable losing sound or graphics and having no clue when they upgrade ?
I don't know what Ubuntu's doing but I'm starting to get really really angry at it generally speaking... I had to state it somewhere, now it's done in that bug report :-(
Except for unforeseen and unpredictable bugs, a version upgrade should never break anything that used to work, or something is seriously broke with the project management, period.