[Panel-devel] "Sample" text on non-final artworks

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 19 November 2007, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> On Monday 19 November 2007 14:19:06 Chris Howells wrote:
> > Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > > a lot of people have complained about the look of KDE 4 because of the
> > > look of the temporary artworks (e.g. panel), and you are probably aware
> > > of this. Would you mind if I put a bold red text on each temporary
> > > artwork saying "SAMPLE" on it? At least people will stop with silly and
> > > baseless complaints, and will understand what is temporary and what is
> > > not.
> >
> > Please don't.
> >
> > If you do that I think you can pretty much say good bye to anybody being
> > prepared to run KDE 4 on a daily basis such as myself. I run KDE 4 at
> > work, in a production environment, and report bugs where appropriate.
> > Please don't make it hard or impossible to do so.

heh ... this is exactly the sort of reaction/attitude that prompted me to 
suggest, mostly tongue in cheek, to put this on unifinished artwork.

> Apart from the fact that you're crazy of running KDE 4 now in a production
> environment ;-) ,

it actually works well enough for this for those who know what they are doing. 
we should probably encourage this behaviour rather than joke about it =)

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