I think Mandrake has the best distro overall (why else would I be running it?),
BUT they have the worst sense of graphic appeal...
Everything Mandrake has either created (DrakX, DrakConf, Aurora), or recently
re-branded (KDE2) works fine, but looks like a purple fisher price toy.
-John Reddersen
--- Zeljko Vukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think Mandrake's look & feel is a serious question.
> I love Mandrake, and I would like to promote it here in
> Denmark. For your information, The Danish Ministry of Tehnology
> & The Danish Government has lately discussed replacing Microsoft
> Windows in all public owned computers with Linux.
> If , for example, I want to promote Linux-Mandrake, as my favorite
> Linux distro (an I would love to do that) and show it to danish
> politicians (why not) the first thing they will notice is the new Mandrake's
> Helix-Gnome or Mandrake's KDE splash screens. Their conclusion would
> probably be: this is something childish, this is not a serious thing.
> Linux-Mandrake has to take care about this.
> KDE artist have had a lot of discussion lately about kde look & feel. Also
> about chosing the right splash screen. We have to respect their desicion and
> their hard work.
> Regards,
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake's look & feel
>
>
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000,Zeljko Vukman wrote:
> > > > I knew it. Now there is a new Mandrake's splash screen instead of
> > > > original KDE splash screen (it happened before with Helix-Gnome
> > > > splash screen). It is cute, my children like it, but I am 42
> > > > and I would like to have an option to choose which splash screen I
> > > > will use when I start KDE. Original KDE splash screen is unfortunatelly
> > > > removed from /usr/share/apps/ksplash.
> > > > Please, if the next step is to remove all kde icons and replace them by
> > > > Mandrake's icons tell us so we can make backup of our kde icons.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Ohno! Please stop this Mandrake graffitti _now_. People at KDE _do_
> have
> > > an eye for style and I consider it to be an affront to them to have their
> > > work spoilt this way. Is there no respect for intellectual property?
> >
> > Heheh, same distro that took redhat and put a different label on it -
> whaddya
> > expect? HAHAHAHAH
> >
> > Sorry - had to say it, I love the distro though!
> >
>
>
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