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Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Bug 59940] New: Adoption of dotNET sytle and MKUltra
From:       Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date:       2003-06-23 17:02:27
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Hi all, [coming in a bit late]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 14:42, Thiago Macieira 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.

Wait a minute, people have been complaining that KDE looks ugly for years now, 
most of that time Keramic hadn't even been created yet. Keramic was basically 
created to be a modern "graphically designed" replacement for the traditional 
KDE look (KDE High Colour style).

Now, having looked at MKUltra and dotNet, I must honestly say that MKUltra is 
disaster w.r.t. usability (controls are in the wrong position, are too small 
and don't even look 'clickable') and dotNet style also has usability problems 
but most of all, good old fashioned KDE High Colour style is just a more 
refined 3D style.

(dotNet problems:
* too flat -- 3D is used in GUIs not just because it looks good
* scrollbar arrows in the wrong position
* slider controls look like horizontal rules
* the different controls are not visually distinct enough (w.r.t each other).
* trademarked name!
etc.)

cheers,

-- 
Simon Edwards             | Guarddog Firewall
simon@simonzone.com       | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice."

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