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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Styles and CO (was: (offtopic) My mom is a born hacker)
From:       "Gerold J. Wucherpfennig" <gjwucherpfennig () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-04-23 7:15:28
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On Wednesday 23 April 2003 03:28, David Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 02:20 am, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
> > > But some distros don't
> >
> > But why do others change it? Are they just bored and don't know what
> > to do with their spare time ;-)
>
> As near as I can tell, it's one of three reasons. 1) They think they
> know "better" than KDE, 2) They wish to distinguish themselves from
> other distros, and 3) They wish to somehow "autoupdate" the menu when
> new items are added. The last is perfectly reasonable, but I have seen
> more than one instance of the former two.

I was joking. IMO they know better ;-)

>
> > > and still
> > > others don't even use Linux to begin with.
> >
> > Many don't use Linux at all, but why?
>
> Because I prefer FreeBSD. Don't ask me why, because that would take an
> essay length response, and it would only apply for me. Linux is not the
> only UNIX or Unix-like system that KDE runs on, it's merely the most
> popular.

Now you got me :-x
I wanted to express that we're still far away from the ease of use of Windows
(please don't flame me ;-)
and that's one of the reasons why many people use Windows instead
of one of the few UNICES.
We can do better than Windows and shouldn't let the distributer
do the whole job. This will lead to more KDE forks (RH,MDK,...).



 
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