Chris Lee wrote:
> I am an end user and I use Mozilla, this makes it an end user product.
> It may not have been the intention to provide an end user product, but
> when the mozilla builds work better than the 'customizers' versions end
> users go to the better product.
> Without endusers usiong it the end user perspective will never make it
> back to the Mozilla project and user-unfriendly 'buggs' will remain such
> as the mail Icon, if a user-unfriendly product is what the Mozilla team
> is after then I dont think it would have got this far.
>
> Holger Metzger wrote:
>
>> Jacek Piskozub schrieb:
>>
>>> We lobby for thet since this winter. There was a string of bugs about
>>> that closed without a real fix (the means for inserting the icons
>>> were added but not the icons). No luck in coosing a set of icons so
>>> far. It is not easy to say what the real reason is. Probably some
>>> conflicts among Mozilla old timers (maybe we stepped on someone's
>>> toes?).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Might it be because Mozilla will never be a "enduser" product? So
>> providing icons is totally up to customizers like Netscape? The Netscape
>> 6.1 icons surely look nice.
>>
>>
>> Holger
>>
>
No, it is NOT an end-user product.
The fact that Mozilla is "open source" simply means that the Mozilla
team has left the door to the office OPEN so you can come in and have a
look. By comparison, the Netscape 6 door is closed and you only get to
see the product when they open the door and toss out a package for you
to open and use what's inside.
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI
UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
