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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE looks too much like windows...
From:       Timothy Whitfield <timothy () ametro ! net>
Date:       1999-05-25 4:33:50
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I don't think there is any doubt anymore about kde not looking like windows. 
In fact mine looks like a mac. =)

Freshmeat had a real win clone today:
http://www-masuda.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kourai/qvwm/index-en.html
Was just aching for a reason to show someone.

But all in all who cares,
We would all like windows if Mircrosoft was a good company or if windows was 
a stable platform or if Microsoft licenses weren't designed to rob you.

These days I think looking too much like windows is a complement for kde,
especially since KDE only sits on top of stable, server ready platforms.

Timothy

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> next time some GNOME zealot complains about KDE looking too much like
> windows please cite.
> 
> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/6186.html
> 
> [..]
> "Gnome is designed to look and feel very much like Windows - since that's
> what users are familiar with. The project doesn't have enough money to
> engage in costly market research which could modify the idea of the user
> interface. So instead the group is drawing on what's on the desktop
> already. 
> 
> "I think that the first release of Gnome, which is the basic desktop, is
> pretty much what a Windows system would do or a Macintosh system would do
> at the very beginning,"[..]
> 
> Yours,
> -- martin
> 
> // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
> // Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
> Anybody who's comfortable using KDE should use it. Anyone who wants to
> tell other people what they should be using can go to work for Microsoft.
> KDE not only OpenSource[TM] but OpenMinded[TM].
> KDE: A stable GUI for a reliable OS.
--
Timothy Whitfield
AMC Internet Services
American Metrocomm Corporation
Phone 228-872-0003
Fax 228-435-4388

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