> 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
>


My point of view is that the point of using TDE over KDE 4.x is that it is the most polished feature-full desktop environment. It has a great working flow that is more logical to me than what they call Plasma desktop and it is much faster, thanks to Qt3.
I completely agree that if changes are made, they have to be made right. It would not be a good idea to change icon theme for something uglier and nonfunctional.

BUT it is on the feature and usability point of view. If we can find a way to modernize the appearance of TDE, it will probably bring more people and distros to use it.

A question to ask ourself is: ''Why do we paint back the walls at home after a certain amount of time?''
Of course it's the same walls, but it brings something new, fresher, without making the house completely nonfunctional.

Still just my opinion...

Have a nice day!
-Alexandre