Recently, support was added for rescaled animated GIFs: http://martinsandsmark.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/yaybanana/ http://commits.kde.org/kdelibs/35526c4ddc99e684a645d5c536cdaec513cc3103 (Previously, they would just not be animated.) Unfortunately, the animation goes on even after "stop animations" is clicked, which is really annoying (in fact I found it less of a problem for the rescaled images not to be animated than now!). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to any page with a rescaled animated GIF on it, e.g.: http://martinsandsmark.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/yaybanana/ 2. Right-click. 3. "Stop animations" Actual Results: The animation continues. Expected Results: The animation stops. This is particularly frustrating in that I already had to fix "stop animations" to work at all in KTHML 4 (see bug #157789), and now it's getting broken again! And unstoppable animations annoy the heck out of me because they distract me from reading the actual text.
Ping? Over 7 months later, there isn't even as much as a REPLY to my bug report, let alone a fix. Your feature breaks existing functionality which is critical for usability, yet you do not feel responsible for it AT ALL.
Kevin? It shouldn't be news to you that large parts of KDE are maintained by those who provide patches.
But the people who break things should be held responsible for fixing them! In some projects (e.g. GCC), there's a policy that if your patch causes a regression and you don't fix it in a timely manner, your patch gets reverted. We really need something like this in KDE.
(PS: GCC defines "timely manner" as 48 hours!)