Many serious desktop bugs remain unfixed.

Many serious desktop bugs remain unfixed. Perhaps if there was less of a stress on new features, there would be more bandwidth to fixing existing bugs. Here is an example bug - drag and drop with filenames is broken out of the box on Yosemite and has been for quite a while - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40449 . Also you just have to go take a look at the comments in the Qt release announcements to see that the views I am expressing here are not an isolated case. Here is an example - https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/03/17/qt-5-5-alpha-available/#c...

Posted by dman on Jun 9, 2015, 6:18 PM

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