kde 3.1 -- make Keramik default?

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 19:19, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Thursday May 30, 2002 10:07, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 May 2002 18:53, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > 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 ?).
>
> This isn't about who made them.  This is about replacing the known,
> familiar KDE look with something different for no reason other than to be
> different.
>
> This is about people coming out of the woodwork to bash the existing KDE
> look, calling it a copy, non-modern, and whatnot, when this existing
> default widget style has been default since KDE 2.0.
And because it is there since 2.0 we must keep it to be default till ethernity 
? And nobody has bashed around on the old look in this thread I guess, but 
you are bashing on Keramik.

>
> > 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
>
> Modernization?  How is one more "modern" than another?  Can you define what
> looking "modern" means?  Are the old styles coal burning while keramik is
> electric?
No, that's my feeling about the look'n'feel of Keramik in comparison to the 
HiColor style and in comparison to the look'n'feel of Aqua + WinXP toyland.
Perhaps you don'T feel it is modern, nice, won't argue around about that word, 
but beside you don't like Keramik, you have no arguments more than me, who 
likes Keramik (mostly). Why not just wait if the majority in kde-core-devel 
want's it, as the whole question is more a matter of taste than a religious 
"bash old stuff, marketing, ..." disscussion.

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Christoph "Crossfire" Cullmann
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