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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: New KDE2.0 widget theme preview screenshot
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-07-06 12:44:03
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On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Santiago Burbano wrote:
> >
> > What the heck are we doing here?
> >
> > Users start to complain for too much configurability :-(
> >
> > the mac-like menubar is a result of the hard work of many developers which
> > anyways answered to a lot of users request. It is an unique feature in
> > Unix, and users coming from Mac seem to love it very much.
> >
> > Understading that such a feature isn't to the likes of anybody, the
> > developers made it configurable. One can use it or not, to its like.
> >
> > Users arguing on the (lack of) usefulness of a feature they don't like
> > (*and* they're not forced to use) are just loosing their times.
> 
> Ough!!! Sorry, next time I'll think twice before opening my mouth (or my
> keyboard). :-)
> 

No, you made a valid question.

> Obviously, I haven't browsed enough KDE conf options. I had never
> seen/noticed the Mac/W95 option. That's why I asked if it was a KDE 2.0
> feature. After the first answer saying that it was configureable, I had
> enough.
>

No problem.
 
> But apparently, somebody has taken it personal and thought that I was
> complaining, blaming developers, ...
>

You didn't understand it was an option. That's okay. Christian was responding
to a comment made by someone who did understand it was optional but still 
didn't like the thing. It's okay if you don't like a certain feature as long
as it can be configured and doesn't bloat the code. 

Personally, I love Mac menubars. Obviously, so do Mac users ;-) I find myself
running Motif and Xaw apps and still going for that top menubar... If it's not
for you that's fine too. It's not even the default.  

   > Just for the record, I LOVE KDE, I think this is the greatest thing since
> paella (Spanish I am, yes) and I support KDE developers 1E50 %.
> 
> This list is getting quite violent lately. When finally all this RedHat
> thing was calming down, the fire can start up again in another flamethread.
> I hope that this will not get any further (in this or any other thread). KDE
> is waaaaaaay over all this stuff. I know that we all need our summer
> holidays (at least in the northern half of the world) same as I do but,
> please, stay on your feet.

You think this turned into a flame?? No, for a group of what seems to be
primarily Linux users this was a relatively calm exchange ;-) Note I use Linux
too...

> 
> Santiago
> 
> 
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