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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KDE-award?
From:       Adolf Koenig <rzuw001 () rz ! uni-wuerzburg ! de>
Date:       1999-07-01 8:21:57
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I agree that KDE-applications to a certain extent should follow the guidelines
for kde-apps.

But please think one minute about the following story:

Imagine you are going along the street and on the corner everyday you
meet a beggar. Every now and then you give him a dollar and you feel good
and he seems pleased too.
But one day he complains: Why don't you give me a dollar everyday, and 
besides that, one dollar is not enough. Give me two.

How long will you continue to give him money?


In my opinion Unix and therefore Linux is a OS for people who want to do
something. With Unix they have the power to do that, in most cases with little
effort (and I know many a OS where you  c a n n o t  do that), but a little more 
knowledge is needed, to know the tools. I for my part, am much more interested 
in getting a new tool, which enables me doing things I couldn't do before, 
than to have the standardized look and feel. 
For a while now I see that some people want things they could easily do 
themselves within a minute, if they would use the power of Unix. But they 
want it with a click on a button, which means that somebody else should 
put in a lot of work and waste his time just for nothing. I think time is better 
used in programming new functions than programming new buttons.

If you want to play with buttons, why don't you buy a nintendo?

Therefore I would like to encourage all app-developers, not to care too much about 
guidelines. One part of them is surely necessary to guarantee the cooperation
of the different programs in KDE. These should be observed to enable the
functionality. But in general guidelines should be used as a help and not as
regulations.  


greetings

A.Koenig  


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