kde 3.1 -- make Keramik default?

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 18:53, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Thursday May 30, 2002 01:28, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > I know many will probably hate the idea (hi Neil!), but I think it has
> > the potential to create quite some excitment over KDE and attract a
> > boatload of new fans.
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> So your only reason is marketing.  Fine.  Go right ahead. Trash the
> existing icons, trash the existing look, for marketing purposes.  Just
> turn your back on everyone who's been saying over and over that KDE looks
> fine.  Or rather, stab us in the back by saying all of us KDE defenders
> were morons.
>
> If you think this meets the goals of KDE, do it.
I can't follow your arguments. The Keramik style + the icons are no external 
stuff we grab to replace "real kde-home-made" stuff. Both stuff was done by 
kde developers (keramik style + kwin keramik deco) or artists who like kde 
(everaldo has done crystal icons or ?). If we decide to use these stuff for 
3.1, that is no "Trash the existing icons, trash the existing look", it is 
just a modernisation of the look'n'feel of kde to fit the needs of the 
current users (YES, there are people liking a "modern" GUI, there are even 
people using a system only because of it's look'n'feel) and the old icons or 
style won't be trashed, it just won't be the default style whit which a user 
is confronted at the start of using kde.

cu
Christoph

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