'Re: Which styles to keep?'

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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Which styles to keep?
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2007-08-16 13:27:27
Message-ID: 0EFCCFE2-6448-4421-AE0A-A2875622C6EF () telegraph-road ! org
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On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> if you have convincing data that presenting "classical" styles to new
> users is Bad (TM), then don't do it - in the welcome wizard or  
> whatever.


http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/03/ 
happiness_decis.html

> but do you really think that alienating those who create kde is to  
> kde's
> best? i know at least one very "worthwhile" guy who lost motivation
> because of the increasing "professionalization" and market orientation
> of kde. i bet he isn't the only one.

Well, too bad for him, but I think we can do without people who can't  
think out of their own geek-pink bubble.


--
Guillaume
http://telegraph-road.org



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style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">if \
you have convincing data that presenting "classical" styles to new</DIV><DIV \
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type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; \
margin-left: 0px; ">but do you really think that alienating those who create kde is \
to kde's</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; \
margin-left: 0px; ">best? i know at least one very "worthwhile" guy who lost \
motivation</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; \
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margin-left: 0px; ">of kde. i bet he isn't the only \
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