> It makes the TDE community look bad (and certainly not inviting to growing > our ranks) when it is so popular to be hostile towards anything other than > TDE. You expect there to be a few jerks in any community, but when the > jerk percentage gets too high, you're keeping others away. The community > won't grow. > > I'm not talking about being opinionated. Probably everyone here is pretty > opinionated about software freedom, & other unrelated things. I'm talking > about coming off as a jerk. > > I realize, we'll probably just end up agreeing to disagree about all of > this, but this stuff seems pretty obvious to me. > > cheers, > > Elcaset > +1. Please keep the KDE/Gnome/etc. flaming off this list. Think of it this way: would you so loudly criticize another system such as Mac OS X, or would you simply state that such a system was designed with a different user in mind, not for you, limited, etc.? KDE and other desktop offerings should be treated with at least some degree of respect--they are not competitors, but rather have a different idea of how people should be using their computers. An idea that seems to be rather popular at the moment I might add, no matter how much I personally disagree with it. ;-) Also, please remember that there is technology in KDE that might be useful to us in the future; not everything in the KDE project is incompatible with the TDE project's goals. Tim