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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The mascot!
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-04-26 16:41:42
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Mosfet wrote:
>Matthias Elter wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Harri Porten wrote:
>> > > I hope this mail comes through, kde-devel seems to be up and working again. I
>> > > got lots of positive feedback on the mascot proposal. About 90% of the people
>> > > who wrote in love the dragon. :-)
>> > >
>> > > I'd say, make it official, we have a mascot now!
>> >
>> > The remaining 10% percent seem to have united and announced this page on
>> > slashdot :(.
>> >
>> > http://www.rahga.com/mascot/
>> >
>> > This might make copyrighting the mascot a bit difficult.
>>
>> Great, slashdot...no word about the new KDE Style/Theme support
>> but they post stupid stuff like this. But who cares about slashdot?
>>
>
>Several people submitted it but Slashdot refused to carry it. They don't carry
>stories about KDE development in general. Note that they also refused to carry the
>1.1.1pre announcements, while posting every single Gnome beta minor release...

For a Red Hat "information" site they write quite a bit about KDE, probably even
slightly more than MSN reports about Linux . So we all should be graceful ;-)

Seriously, the slashdotters are webmasters, not programmers. When they saw the
style/theme support, they probably thought: "What's that? That looks like
everybody can draw it with the gimp in 5 minutes! They've probably stolen
it from GTK. Where's the clue?" Exactly, where's the clue, I mean, they don't
have one. There's much more to reasonable styling then simply placing pixmaps
everywhere, it's also about dynamic and usability ( example: a button is
something animated - you can push it in -,  not just a static picture. ).

A mascot on the other hand is something they understand. It's also simply a
matter of taste. So everybody - may he be clueless or not - can comment on that
and _will_ comment on that. Whereas with the styles only two postings are
possible: "Looks great" and "Shit, now GTK isn't any longer the only toolkit
X11 toolkit that supports things liks that". No big deal.

So from a journalistic point of view, they are doing the right thing. Pretty
crappy style of journalism, but at least they serve their clients and
paying customers.

I still agree that they linux community somehow needs a vendor independent
discussion site. Unfortunately, linuxtody.com  isn't used much for discussion,
maybe because the pure amount of information is too big.


Matthias

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