Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2013 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > On Friday 04 January 2013 13:55:01 Andy Vet Rep wrote: > > Saying that doesn't mean that Crystal SVG has to be removed forever... It > > can also be available in the icon theme list as well. > > Surely that also means that if Oxygen were available you could chose that? > Why are you so sure that everybody who is not currently using TDE would > leap at it if Oxygen were used? > > Experience in other media (e.g. Radio 4, a broadcasting channel, here) is > that if you change and "modernise" in order to bring in the young, which > radio 4 did, and what I suspect you may mean when you say that people will > be put off, you will probably not bring in the young, who will still not > like it, but you will lose those you have already got. Radio 4 had to > change back, and last time I checked had still not regained all its lost > listeners. > > Our Post Office decided that it needed a sparkly new "modern" name. It > changed to, I think, Consignia. It was a disaster and they had to change > back. > > As you say, you can change things on your live CD and people have to be, > and I hope are, grateful for what they get. > > I have used - and been grateful for - it. I used to use PCLOS as one of my > library of Live CDs, but dropped it when they went to KDE4. It is nice to > have it back! But I find the desktop so off-putting to look at, even > temporarily, that I change it immediately, as soon as it boots up. I know, > however, that there are those who love your choice at the moment. > > Clearly my opinion about TDE is no more important than yours, possibly less > so, and you have the support of Tim, whose opinion clearly matters a lot > more than mine. But the majority of those who have posted on this list > think as I do that change for change's sake is not a good idea. As I said, > if it ain't broke don't fix it. :-) > > Lisi +1 Nik