On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Amir Tal wrote:

>
> this is not about if they have a right or not.
> this is about giving you a living fact, without being able to choose.
> "we think its better, we like it that way, get used to it !"

Funny that you say that, as a debian user:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

This is what a *good* linux distro does.

BTW: redhat still put the KDE config files under /usr/share/config/ ,
right? If so: they have not yet finished their job (and their distro is
not yet FSH-compliant, as they have plenty of configurable data under
/usr)

(BTW: every distro, even debian, puts some of its artwork as the default
desktop)

> >
> > People can also change the default settings. People can also change the
> > default theme. Is that such a problem?
> >
> > The credits issue may be a more sensetive issue: Redhat have removed the
> > "about KDE" menu item, and added the credit to KDE to the standard about
> > box.
>
> wonder what the kde team has to say about this..

But do they really desrve two menu items? From a usability poin of view
there shouldn't be too many menu items. Perhaps it was a bad decision of
KDE in the first place?

>
> >
> > > new users should not have a problem with this new approach, and they may
> > > even like the new artwork implemented there, but what about old timers,
> > > that want their desktop set just the way they like it ?

And what do those old-timers say when KDE occasionally changes those
defaults?

> > >
> > > in my opinion, this is starting to look like a classic MS scenario, which
> > > i definetly dont like.
> > > is this where linux is going from now ?
>
>
> > > its true that you can always remove the default packages and
> > > compile\install your own, but why would a user wantto go into all that
> > > truble ?
> > > doesnt seem so much of a "free choice" now, does it ?

What "original packages" do you miss? The "about KDE" bits? Add a link to
http://www.kde.org , and you're done. Default behaviour? Take some time,
(10 minutes or so) to change this behaviour. Default theme? Change it!

That was easy, right?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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