From kde Thu Jul 22 14:32:50 1999 From: Derek Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:32:50 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: RFC: More sounds please X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=93264979815681 > > > a) some themes should be part of the standard release. > > > > No they shouldn't. Themes are a waste of space to the average worker. > > They are simply eye (and ear) candy. If you disagree, fine, go fetch > > them. But don't burn my bandwidth and diskspace with this sort of junk. > > > > Yes, but you can hardly call kdegames { part of the standard 1.1.1 pack} > anything but "candy" under the above description :-). We also have the True, which is the reason I've never downloaded it. I don't want it. I have no obection to a set of KDE themes being included in the standard pack where I can choose whether I want to download them or not. Just don't put them in KDE multimedia, or anywhere else where I *have* to download them. > really useful stuff, such as > > moonphase > mousepedometer > worldwatch > screensavers > a large number of desktop patterns My point exactly. What a pile of junk! I *have* to have it, but I don't want it. Let's not add to this list. > I think a certain amount of candy is necessary to sell the product to > the average user. We have a fair amount of eye-candy, just no ear-candy. I'm not sure that's true. If it looks good and works well, the average user will be happy. There will always be a market for visual tricks, and I've no objection to that. But I would probably call myself an average user, and I would appreciate the option of not having to deal with themes. > There are about 15-20 events which would require a sound, assuming about > 20K per sound would only mean 400K uncompressed, hardly going to kill > your modem or disk. Your calculation assumes one sound per action. If KDE where to contain a selection of themes (as the original post suggested) we're talking about megabytes. Anyway, it would take me 3 to 4 minutes to download a 400K file. Folks with slower modems (and there are a *lot*) can double or treble that. Lots of people pay for their phone calls. Then I've got to read the docs, understand them, and decide if I need this stuff. Lot's of themes and sounds are superflous. By all means offer them as an option for those who want to download them. All I ask is that *I* don't have to waste my time and resources with them. -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral