WOW. . .those screenshots of 3.1Alpha are fantastic

[Mary Stamper]

but is that what is going to get big companies to consider chucking micro$ and checking out KDE?
--- antialias <vukman at mail.dk> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 July 2002 09:56 am, cr wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 July 2002 03:54, Mary Stamper wrote:
> > > Is this perhaps one of the weaknesses of the KDE project? or of free
> > > software in general? Folks work on what they want to instead of worrying
> > > about what is needed to stay in business. As an employee of a company
> > > that sells services for  money, we have to work on what the users need,
> > > not always on what we think is most cool or most fun. Is this discipline
> > > perhaps lacking when there is no money to be made?
> >
> 
> Waht we think is most cool and most fun? That is actually what users need and 
> users want. Keramik window decoration is one of the highest rated on 
> kde-look.org. As far as I know, qwertz, who is KDE artist, designed Keramik 
> (which is completely original window decoration and widget style) and Keramik 
> is probably going to be default in KDE 3.1.
> Icons, presented in screenshot are created by Everaldo (clone of MacOSX icon 
> style), K. Borrey (clone of Windows XP icon theme) and tackat (original KDE 
> default style). Users requested these styles and icon themes and KDE 
> developers fulfilled their wishes.
> Users who don't like colorful desktop have (and always will have) possibility 
> to choose some other styles and icon themes, color schemes etc. etc. There 
> are a plenty of possibilities. KDE is highly customizable. You can even use 
> styles and icons from gnome etc.
> 
> I don't think KDE developers are worried what is is needed to stay in 
> business. If they were worried about it they would be employed by Microsoft 
> or other big company.
> 
> And what is very interesting here: the best things in open source comunity are 
> actually developed by developers who don't think about money and promotion.
> 
> antialias
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