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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2002-12-04 10:03:26
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On Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2002 17:38, Manuel Amador wrote:
> > But isn't that the distributors job?
> > To change the defaults to settings which match their target
> > audience's needs?
>
> Then why make distributors job harder?  You sound like you're implying
> that just because the distributor can set sane defaults, you can get
> away with setting them to insane values.

No, I was saying that if a dstribution was aimed at people who do not 
understand aynthing about filesystems, they could use differnt defaults 
in their distribution.

All people using other distributions and people compiling KDE themselves 
would still have the KDE default values where Desktop is not $HOME.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/
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