idea: kpersonalizer to ask for user 'type'

[Dawit A.]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 09:57, George Staikos wrote:
>
> > the "distros will customize" argument is IMHO just an excuse, and it
> > works against creating a solid KDE brand which is not good for our users
> > and not good for the project.
>
>   Not that "they will" but that "they do, and will continue to do".
> Targetting KDE out of the box to users that we don't have at the expense of
> users we do have is dumb, and expecting that the users we don't have but
> will come through distros (like Lindows, Lycoris, Xandros, and perhaps more
> end-user targetted SuSE, Mandrake, etc) will ever even know if we add or
> remove icons is rather far-fetched.  No matter what we do, they will change
> it.  That's how they create their brand.  If you are doing this to create a
> brand as opposed to creating a solid desktop for the userbase, then you
> should be creating a "distro" instead.  KDE provides all the right tools
> for doing this.

I second this sentiment as well...

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Regards,
Dawit A.
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