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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDE3 defaults
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-08-17 21:49:22
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On Sunday August 17, 2003 02:38, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:58:49AM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:

> > > If anything rather add to kcontrol possibility to edit config files
> > > and restart services automagically.
> > > Yeah, I know, *nix old-timers will cry.
> >
> > OK, when every OS KDE runs on has every app, both standard and
> > third-party, GUI-configurable, I'd agree that kwrite and konsole are
> > less necessary. That's not going to happen for a long time, though, if
> > ever.
>
> Nice solution is presented in lilo module in kcontrol.

Solution to what?  The problem is that most services on most OSes do not 
have KDE UIs.  Saying that there is one tool available for one OS does not 
fix that.

> > If you want to use a GUI that requires no retraining from Windows,
> > then just use Windows!
>
> You don't understand. In most institutions retraining from system to
> system is: Hi, I bring you new box. It is similar to previous but nicer,
> play with it. [authentic text Win3.11 -> Win95]
> And this is _whole_ introduction. If workers are lucky they will be half
> an hour meeting in biggest conference room (cinema) and guy from IT will
> be explaining some things. But people will be chatting, smoking outside
> etc.

So you think KDE should change to support some hypothetical issues some 
Windows users at badly-run companies might have if one day they decided to 
use KDE?

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com

"I'll believe it when I see it." -- George Walker Bush
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