Which styles to keep?

[Lubos Lunak]

On čt 16. srpna 2007, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > I propose to stop this discussion, and do what we always do: let
> > those who code, decide.
>
> On a usabilitity/aesthetics question ? Are you mad ?
>
> On the contrary I'd advocate that anyone using KDE for development be
> explicitly forbidden to have any say on the design and choice of
> artwork (and usability, while I'm at it).

 Sorry, but this is nonsense. Not the last paragraph[*], but the one before. 
This is not about aesthetics or even usability, this is about more options in 
a config dialog that more or less only people caring about those more options 
are going to see. All those "average user" arguments are irrelevant, since 
that kind of users is not very likely to ever see that dialog, let alone try 
to switch the styles.

[*] Well, actually, the last paragraph is rubbish too
- funnily enough, it excludes even some artists, say, style developers
- it doesn't take a great actor to recognize a bad one - I may not be able to 
design a single thing that'd look good and I definitely don't insist that I 
have any big decisive say on artwork, but I can still see that e.g. Oxygen in 
its current form (ok, ok, which is going to change according to this thread, 
but anyway) has pretty bad usability with its poorly visible widgets
- I'd also doubt that just the ability to paint icons (or who's going to be 
the non-developers - doc writers, translators?) is an automatic guarantee 
that the person is good to judge usability or even aesthetics. In general 
probably yes, but just have a look at your favourite insane artist style to 
see what an artist may be capable of. We also don't ignore artists when they 
write bugreports.

 But none of that matters in this discussion. This discussion is about what 
choices should be in "kcmshell style". And I say that those go as far 
as "kcmshell style" go there to get a choice.

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