From kde Sat Jul 13 14:21:10 2002 From: antialias Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:21:10 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] WOW. . .those screenshots of 3.1Alpha are fantastic X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=102657024504403 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 worry= ing > > 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 nee= d, > > not always on what we think is most cool or most fun. Is this discipl= ine > > 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=20 users want. Keramik window decoration is one of the highest rated on=20 kde-look.org. As far as I know, qwertz, who is KDE artist, designed Keram= ik=20 (which is completely original window decoration and widget style) and Ker= amik=20 is probably going to be default in KDE 3.1. Icons, presented in screenshot are created by Everaldo (clone of MacOSX i= con=20 style), K. Borrey (clone of Windows XP icon theme) and tackat (original K= DE=20 default style). Users requested these styles and icon themes and KDE=20 developers fulfilled their wishes. Users who don't like colorful desktop have (and always will have) possibi= lity=20 to choose some other styles and icon themes, color schemes etc. etc. Ther= e=20 are a plenty of possibilities. KDE is highly customizable. You can even u= se=20 styles and icons from gnome etc. I don't think KDE developers are worried what is is needed to stay in=20 business. If they were worried about it they would be employed by Microso= ft=20 or other big company. And what is very interesting here: the best things in open source comunit= y are=20 actually developed by developers who don't think about money and promotio= n. antialias ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.