I can understand the branding though, otherwise you can't differentiate a distrib A to a distrib B. But is it really what the end user want? no, he just want something that works, cool, new, and beautiful.<br><br>I have also many friends asking how to remove the opensuse logo and instead use KDE one for the K Menu.<br>
<br>For me now, what makes a difference between distrib A and distrib B is what it is inside. Branding and so, i simply don't care because like most of users i remove the default wallpaper, the default theme and all the default layout of the panel to match to my own workflow and my habits. So by "what is inside" i mean packages quality, graphical tools for end users to set up network, graphic card and so. Those tools has to be easy to use and then i install this distrib to my friend or tell them that is a good choice to start.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Marco Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com">notmart@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 09 April 2009, nuno pinheiro wrote:<br>
...<br>
<div class="im">> In this case i know and its couse the marketing team in mandriva wants<br>
> gnome and kde desktop to look alike, so yeah<br>
> ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. makes me wonder wtf do<br>
we work<br>
> for....<br>
> fortunatly every one i know the frist thing they do with the kde desktop in<br>
> mandriva is to change to kde defoults,<br>
> Helio galaxy theme looks a bit old.<br>
</div>interesting related story, that i think it kinda exposes the problem with<br>
distro theming/branding:<br>
a friend of mine recently installed linux, after my of course totally neutral<br>
advices chose kde (was opensuse, similar choices in theming and branding),<br>
<br>
after some days he asked me how he could remove all the branding from it<br>
because he said it looked exactly like the branded firmwares of the cellphones<br>
that operator sell (their logo everywhere, functions crippled etc..)<br>
<br>
if distros are getting really a bad image like the cellphone operators (and is<br>
reeeally a bad rep:) there is really something wrong, because they don't<br>
deserve it<br>
i hope they understand they are nearly committing suicide with this, because<br>
mandriva and opensuse are pretty solid distributions otherwise<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Marco Martin<br>
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