Contrast plasma::theme color issues

[Alexis Ménard]

I can understand the branding though, otherwise you can't differentiate a
distrib A to a distrib B. But is it really what the end user want? no, he
just want something that works, cool, new, and beautiful.

I have also many friends asking how to remove the opensuse logo and instead
use KDE one for the K Menu.

For me now, what makes a difference between distrib A and distrib B is what
it is inside. Branding and so, i simply don't care because like most of
users i remove the default wallpaper, the default theme and all the default
layout of the panel to match to my own workflow and my habits. So by "what
is inside" i mean packages quality, graphical tools for end users to set up
network, graphic card and so. Those tools has to be easy to use and then i
install this distrib to my friend or tell them that is a good choice to
start.


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 09 April 2009, nuno pinheiro wrote:
> ...
> > In this case i know and its couse the marketing team in mandriva wants
> > gnome and kde desktop to look alike, so yeah
> > ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. makes me wonder wtf do
> we work
> > for....
> > fortunatly every one i know the frist thing they do with the kde desktop
> in
> > mandriva is to change to kde defoults,
> > Helio galaxy theme looks a bit old.
> interesting related story, that i think it kinda exposes the problem with
> distro theming/branding:
> a friend of mine recently installed linux, after my of course totally
> neutral
> advices chose kde (was opensuse, similar choices in theming and branding),
>
> after some days he asked me how he could remove all the branding from it
> because he said it looked exactly like the branded firmwares of the
> cellphones
> that operator sell (their logo everywhere, functions crippled etc..)
>
> if distros are getting really a bad image like the cellphone operators (and
> is
> reeeally a bad rep:) there is really something wrong, because they don't
> deserve it
> i hope they understand they are nearly committing suicide with this,
> because
> mandriva and opensuse are pretty solid distributions otherwise
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
>
> >
> >
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