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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: PROPOSAL: "Mac" menubar as default
From:       Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-27 7:47:44
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Kurt Granroth wrote:

> > An incredible huge reason for KDEs SUCCESS in the past has been that
> > it looks and works like Windows. Competing projects which have
> > focussed on "being different for the only reason of being different"
> > have been dismissed as "developers dreams" (And this is certainly
> > not because of using a language like C). 
> KDE has never tried to be exactly like Windows... it tries to be
> intuitive for users that *have* used Windows and Macs, but it hardly
> toes the line.

I do not advocate for making KDE a Windows-copy-cat. But I think that
then again we are going a huge step too far away from the Windows-way 
 with this 'feature' being enabled.

You told best sofar why we shouldn't have the Mac-Menubar:

Kurt Granroth wrote on Dec 19, 1999 on kde-look@kde.org:
> Not going to happen.  The default configuration of KDE needs to be
> familar or preferred to the majority of our users.  This is, of
> course, former Windows users.  With that in mind, enabling the mac
> menu as a default would be a strange choice.

This is one of the most important reasons imo.

Greetings,
Tackat.

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