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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE and PR
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-08-10 12:06:15
Message-ID: 200808100606.15530.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Friday 08 August 2008, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > the Ozone window decoration is absolutely horrific compared to Oxygen
> > (which Ozone is a fork of). the Oxygen team knew what they were doing,
> > but unfortunately a couple of devs (who happen to also be on the Suse
> > team) figured they knew better and the result is a visual Fail on-screen
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152030 does not indicate anything like
> this. Please let's respect maintainers decisions and seek for a working
> compromise ( http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160627#c2 ) rather then
> abusing such a topic for suse-bashing. Thanks.

at first i thought: "that wast probably the least useful response possible" but 
then i realized it's a great example of the problem we face here.

see, i agree that people should respect maintainers, and in the case of 
artwork that would be the Oxygen team. we are a meritocracy where those-who-
do-the-work-decide, so that ought be obvious. unfortunately, we tend to treat 
artists (and most other non-coders) as second class citizens in KDE.

this was also not a Suse bash, it was a KDE bash. the reason ozone made it as 
the default for the OpenSuse live cd was due to their desktop coding team 
feeling they knew better than the artists. this attitude comes directly from 
the KDE project itself, and ends up making our products look worse than they 
should be to the public.

this is why fixing things like how we treat the work of non-coders is so 
important: it affects things as distant as user adoption or marketing.

in this case, we can leverage marketing efforts to possibly fix this issue.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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