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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Bug 59940] New: Adoption of dotNET sytle and MKUltra
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () coltec ! ufmg ! br>
Date:       2003-06-18 0:49:06
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On Tuesday 17 June 2003 09:48, Gav Wood wrote:
> > The dotNET and MKUltra combination provide a simple, slim, sleek and
> >  responsive desktop experience. Keramic, on the other hand, is bulky,
> > bulgy, ugly, distractful and completely unresponsive not mention it's
> > awful displacements of widgets in application windows, like Konqueror.
> > Keramic is the cause of KDE's present noteriety for it's ugly user
> > interface, which is totally false especially if the dotNET and MKUltra
> > combination had been adopted as KDE's defualt.
>
> this is bound to be a hot topic since everyone has their favourite theme
> and will argue to the hills and back for it, but for the record i
> completely agree with this guy. others observing users like Pinto seem to
> agree:
>
> 	First Topic: Keramik. People tend to like it very much, but after a week
> or so, they tend to change it to a simpler theme, like Light, or dotNET.
> "It's very nice, but it tends to get in my way", one said.
> 	Seems people tend to dislike pushbuttons.
>
> personally, i liked keramic for about a week of using kde 3. then it became
> just too glitzy and ott for general usage. sure it gives kde it's "own
> look", but is it really worthy of being the default look? i'm thinking not.
>
> let the flame wa...er...discussion commence :-)
>
> gav

As I said in a previous message to this list, my school is adopting KDE as 
default desktop. We made usability studies in order to choose a  default 
configuration for KDE here, and after listening many users, we decided on 
Glow for windec, and dotNET for style. I, personally, do not like this very 
much, but it was based on what users said. Maybe we should do more usability 
studies in order to choose the defaults. This is a very delicate discussion, 
as every one seems to have different preferences. Let us not transform this 
into an "I like this..." thread.

-- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@coltec.ufmg.br

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