Removing ugliness

[Datschge]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 01:58, Sashmit Bhaduri wrote:
> I don't really care either way on the issue in hand, but for MOST
> people, nobody will know the difference whether something is
> included in kdebase or kdeartwork. Most distros install kdeartwork
> by default, and so anything that is included in kdeartwork will
> look like it's one of the base artwork of KDE.
>
> Even then, for people who know the difference between kdeartwork
> and kdebase, the way most distros ship binary packages, they won't
> be able to install parts of kdeartwork that they like. This is
> particularily burdensome, since one of the most popular styles:
> plastik, is included in kdeartwork.
>
> In the end, the whole CONCEPT of kdeartwork (and kdeaddons) fails
> to fix the problem, but instead complicates things further.

Besides that you wrote yourself that it depends on the way distros 
ship their binary packages which is out of reach for KDE anyway,
what do you think can or should be done about that?

Cheers, Datschge