Hans-Peter Fischer wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:06:51 -0400 RV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>[some interesting things in Spanish]
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>Hi Ram�n, (I assume that's your name ;-)
>
No, my name is not Ram�n. ;-)
>
>Note that in Asian
>societies people traditionally did not feel the same urge to show off
>their individuality.
>
I am not sure that is true either
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>I personalize my software, too, but I don't think of my "uniqueness"
>then. While every person IS unique in a way, the similarities among
>people are far greater than the differences, and it would make the world
>a more agreeable place if the young people were educated to see and
>emphasize the similarities rather than continually defending their
>individuality, which they often enough do by totally inadequate means
>such as buying the things publicity and prevailing trends suggest. This
>behaviour only shows how easy they are to manipulate, and I think they
>should be made aware of that. (Since you are working at a college, that
>might be your job. ;-)
>
I don't think the purpose of Mozilla is to changes people's life's
philosophy.
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>To summarize: I agree with you when you say that many people -
>especially young people - may wish to change themes in order to boost
>their individuality, but I disagree with THEM about whether that's a
>sensible way of achieving that. And I certainly don't see the reason why one
>would change themes all the time, so that a separate menu item for that
>would be justified. If I were a cynic (which of course I am not ;-) I'd
>say: Mozilla should not become a toy for adolescents but a stable and
>efficient tool for grown-ups.
>
By allowing people to configure or to chose a theme that is to the
liking of a user is not to make Mozilla a toy. Even if every user sets
just one Theme and never change it again, just the ability to change it
to "the one" they like is great advantage over another software that
forces me to accept a default fixed one.
