Opposition to removing old KWin themes?

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:14 PM, nuno pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:
> On Friday 23 July 2010 23:02:25 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> A Divendres, 23 de juliol de 2010, Leo Savernik va escriure:
>> > Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2010 22:12 schrieb Marco Martin:
>> > > there could be either a flat mode in oxygen (already is, can be
>> > > configured) or -one- of the old ones can be left in place.
>> > > but right now, the -real- motivation is simply this:
>> > > shipping something that looks outdated like that gives a really bad
>> > > image of kde.
>> >
>> > You sound as if KDE were shipped with Redmond theme turned on by default.
>> > Enabling the user to configure his system butt ugly but blazingly fast
>> > does not contradict elegance in any way.
>


Hi Nuno, you mentioned this at the Akademy, but I'm still unconvinced
it matters so much. Supposedly, most users never change the settings
from the defaults... so I cannot see how this is such a big problem in
practice.

> OOO but it does IMO. wen you present such an uncohesive list of ugly options
> that says alot about your overall elegance.

> I hate to sound like my wife wen I leave home poorly dressed, but the way we
> present ourself as a huge impact in this fast consuming low attention span
> world, the impact is of the worst kind and stands as a huge first entry level
> barrier that translate in something like this to "Joe facebook"  user "this
> guys are clueless and I don't want to be like them" i might also note that we
> have loads of such problems across KDE and this is not the worst case, but if
> we truly want a elegant polished desktop we need to start doing that,
> providing an overall polished experience were no detail is left to chance.
>

But we have; let's say that we also allow for a few nostalgic old
timers that don't know any better, like me? ;-)

Keeping in line with your analogy, I hope your wife did not throw away
all your white socks to be sure you could not embarass yourself...

I'm only joking, but I can say a few users would feel treated a bit in
the same way by a move like this.

Ciao,
Luciano



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