[Bug 338669] Re: (Needs UXA) painting artifacts after qt4.5 upgrade on intel chipset

[Stephan]

> I agree with Jithin Emmanuel and am very angry against Kubuntu team.

OK, I was quite angry too, but let's try not to lose temper but see how we can get out
of this situation (that we should have never gotten into).

(I personally am in the lucky position that I can continue working unaffected from this bug, but
only because I have a second machine - so I can temporarily avoid using the affected machine.)


I'm missing two things here:
(1) help on helping: i.e.: what can all the affected users do to help isolate the root cause of this bug
(2) transparency

Re (2): I think people would be much more comfortable if someone from Canonical acknowledged
that this is a very severe bug with no universal workaround available (I'd really suggest to rank it as a
stop-ship bug, please!). Hints at even more severe bugs (X not starting) don't help people in this bug.
Secondly, this kind of bug damages the trust in Ubuntu releases: can we safely assume that upgrading
to a new Kubuntu release(!) will NOT make that machine unusable for serious work?
Thirdly, is there a discussion, whether including Qt 4.5 was an avoidable risk (with better advice available
from the KDE developers)? If so, where is that discussion? What are we learning from it?

How can a bug with 10 duplicates stay in "undecided" so long?

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(Needs UXA) painting artifacts after qt4.5 upgrade on intel chipset
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