discuss: consistency in KDE GUI

[Orville Bennett]

On Dec 22, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> On Friday 22 December 2006 7:10, Orville Bennett wrote:
>> By forcing someone to conform to your standards of what is best, you
>
> we can't force anything on anyone.
>
> we can make sure that our premium apps (e.g. the ones that ship  
> with a given
> kde release) are up to spec. if you wish to break with the  
> guidelines for no
> reason other than "i want to" you can do so, just not as part of  
> the kde
> release. very simple =)
>
>> in the future. If compliance were forced upon them they could choose
>> in the begin, they could easily have chosen another platform to
>> develop on, if it's forced after, they could choose to spend valuable
>> time trying to undo this instead of contributing to their respective
>> apps. And that, that would be a shame.
>
> of course, the use and enforcement of HIGs on other platforms much  
> more
> successful than KDE belies this statement. =)
I forgot to include the requisite "IMO ..." :-)

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