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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: PROPOSAL: "Mac" menubar as default
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-04-27 8:32:09
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> 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.

Second.

Btw, it's not Windows who invented the menubar at this position, they only
have it also there.

--Stefan

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