Christian Persch replied No, which has made people angry. rachelbythebay also replied No and made people angry, but provided background to explain it. Although the circumstances seem different on the surface, I found it to be an instructive narrative.
The difference here is that Rachel had extremely good reasons behind her answer, and she explained why in the bug. She wasn't a jerk, but Christian shows that he is with his response.
I've never been a big fan of jerk developers. Even Torvalds. But at least Torvalds explains why he does something.
You nailed it. The point of my story was that there may be more going on which isn't evident from this response. I don't agree with what's apparently happened here, but we don't have the whole story, either.
Full disclosure: I have no horse in this race. I use fluxbox and eschew all "desktop environments" on Linux.
Fluxbox is my preferred fallback for the "Shit I Broke KDE" failure mode. It's highly recommended for those who just need to open Chrome and an xterm and don't need anything else fancy.
