kde 3.1 -- make Keramik default?

[leimbacd at bellsouth.net]

Its not likely anyone can judge beauty as an absolute.  I don't 
know anyone who would even attempt to make the Nazi-like objective 
judgement of what is considered beautiful over that which is not.   
 
To employ an overquoted saying "Beauty is in the eye of the 
beholder."   
 
Still I know quite a few people are just plain sick of the way KDE 
looks.  Some say it is "icky" without saying exactly why.  Perhaps 
shaking up the default look a bit will inspire these people to get 
beyond the "ickiness" they experience.  I usually direct these 
people to a themes site to customize the look of KDE but they 
usually don't want any part of it.   
 
Its hard to say if a new look for KDE would draw in any new users.  
I would also worry about alienating existing ones who don't want to 
do the work to set all the values back to the "old way" KDE looks. 
 
Offering easilly switchable choices is probably the best way to go 
and I think the KDE styles does that very effectively.  If people 
cannot get beyond "ickiness" to try these styles then we never 
would have won them over to begin with IMO. 
 
As a software developer I love KDE on many levels.  Its a great 
environemnt to develop on as well as in.  Looks are secondary to 
me  [within reason]. 
 
That said, I use Keramic at work and find it no objectively better 
than say liquid or another style.  They all have the same 
functioning parts.  The rest is bells and whistles. 
 
Dave 
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> From: Neil Stevens <neil at qualityassistant.com> 
> Date: 2002/05/30 Thu PM 05:05:55 EDT 
> To: kde-core-devel at mail.kde.org 
> Subject: Re: kde 3.1 -- make Keramik default? 
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> On Thursday May 30, 2002 02:01, Shawn Gordon wrote: 
> > To hold to your argument, KDE3 should never have been 
> > done. 
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> If the only argument for KDE 3 was subjective taste, then you're 
right.   
> But KDE 3 includes many objective improvements over KDE 2. 
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> I'm not saying change is bad.  I'm saying change for the sake 
of change is  
> bad.  If Keramik is so much better, merely asking for objective 
reasons to  
> switch shouldn't be an onerous burden. 
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