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<p>I think what is happening is that people's brains are being primed to enter "nitpicky conservative mode" and focus on the differences from what's expected, rather than "open-minded exploration mode" where it's possible to feel playful and curious and enjoy the distinctiveness of our system. Because very Windows-familiar new users never enter that mode, the first time they encounter a major divergence from Windows--for example, System Settings, or how applets or wallpaper is configured, or how many clicks it takes to open files, or whether Dolphin opens archives itself--they feel angered and disgusted, rather than intrigued and curious.</p>
<p>Accordingly, I think formalizing this by offering global themes out of the box that provide similarly imperfect mimicry of other platforms would make this problem worse, not better.</p>
<p>Closing.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R114 Plasma Addons</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223">https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ngraham, VDG, Plasma<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>crossi, felixernst, Boxie, wstephenson, davidre, LeGast00n, enriqueme, mart, fabianr, Zren, mmustac, niccolove, rikmills, cblack, broulik, mvourlakos, plasma-devel, Orage, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra<br /></div>