From kde-core-devel  Fri Dec 19 16:58:54 2003
From: Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:58:54 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC on default settings
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:52:47PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Friday 19 of December 2003 17:14, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:05:37AM -0500, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > > On Friday 19 December 2003 10:46 am, Simon Perreault wrote:
> > > > Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > > > > None --- web polls simply are not a sensible way of making any
> > > > > decision.
> > > >
> > > > How then should we decide which theme is going to be the default for
> > > > 3.2? This is a matter of taste, as both Plastik and Keramik are
> > > > technically adequate.
> > >
> > > Almost --- plastik has some performance problems (although it's quite
> > > excellent in API coverage, and Sandro has done an amazing job responding
> > > to bug reports). Not sure whether they matter in practice, of course.
> > >
> > >  At any rate, as a biased party, I wouldn't comment on what's an
> > > /appropriate/ method for deciding --- however I object to development
> > > being commanded by a non-representative sampling of users, since it
> > > represents neither users, nor developers.
> >
> > It's not development being commanded here, is it? It's about the
> > choice of what users see as default, there's no actual work bound to
> > it, IMHO.
> >
> > I like the idea of a poll on kde-look.org. There is no way to reach
> > all users and get a 100% coverage, but we can at least reach a lot
> > of them, I think. More than just one developer taking the decision
> > of the default style.
> 
>  IMHO kde-look.org is far from being a good place where to do the poll. Given 
> the audience, I'm afraid if one of the choices was a style with everything 
> animated, shaded, and with a lot of colors, it would have a good chance to 
> win.

Like the current default keramik? :)

Simon