Where are we going in the Fedora development?

[Gustavo Seabra]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:00:38PM -0800, Brian Mury wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-24-11 at 10:07 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>>Are changes being made for good reason or just to be different?
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>>>In the back of my mind I would like Windows users to switch to Linux seeing
>>>it can be presented in as friendly appearance as Windows is to them.
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>>Well, let's see... Every time I upgraded to a new version of Windows or
>>Office, I had to search around for stuff that had moved somewhere else
>>(even though the functionality hadn't changed).
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>>I understand your concerns, but I don't think the comparison to Windows
>>helps your argument. :-)
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>The comparison to Windows is from a cosmetic point of view not in
>order to say the windows look is ideal. The point is that we believe
>that Linux is a better product underneath but its continued existence
>depends on attracting users who are co-opted to use Windows by
>agreements between Microsoft and hardware manufacturers.
>On the other hand a precious responder correctly pointed out that the
>look and feel of FC3 is a result of Gnome developers not Fedora
>Developers. Therefore my complaint is misplaced.
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>concern to be different, the African apes would be included in our 
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Just a comment about the looks...

I use KDE, and I think it looks better than Windows. The only problem is 
that it took me some time to get it the way I wanted.

Cheers.

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