I can understand the branding though, otherwise you can't differentiate a distrib A to a distrib B. But is it really what the end user want? no, he just want something that works, cool, new, and beautiful.
I have also many friends asking how to remove the opensuse logo and instead use KDE one for the K Menu. For me now, what makes a difference between distrib A and distrib B is what it is inside. Branding and so, i simply don't care because like most of users i remove the default wallpaper, the default theme and all the default layout of the panel to match to my own workflow and my habits. So by "what is inside" i mean packages quality, graphical tools for end users to set up network, graphic card and so. Those tools has to be easy to use and then i install this distrib to my friend or tell them that is a good choice to start. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 09 April 2009, nuno pinheiro wrote: > ... > > In this case i know and its couse the marketing team in mandriva wants > > gnome and kde desktop to look alike, so yeah > > ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. makes me wonder wtf do > we work > > for.... > > fortunatly every one i know the frist thing they do with the kde desktop > in > > mandriva is to change to kde defoults, > > Helio galaxy theme looks a bit old. > interesting related story, that i think it kinda exposes the problem with > distro theming/branding: > a friend of mine recently installed linux, after my of course totally > neutral > advices chose kde (was opensuse, similar choices in theming and branding), > > after some days he asked me how he could remove all the branding from it > because he said it looked exactly like the branded firmwares of the > cellphones > that operator sell (their logo everywhere, functions crippled etc..) > > if distros are getting really a bad image like the cellphone operators (and > is > reeeally a bad rep:) there is really something wrong, because they don't > deserve it > i hope they understand they are nearly committing suicide with this, > because > mandriva and opensuse are pretty solid distributions otherwise > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plasma-devel mailing list > > Plasma-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >
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