Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/5/18 Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie>:
>> That's exactly the problem - no matter what decision is made the half
>> of the users (those more aware who has used linux for years, who should
>> be precious for any distribution as it's them who advocacy for Ubuntu
>> and Linux in general) will be pissed off.
>
> Depends on how you do it. If you change the system default then yes
> you'll upset a lot of people.
>
> Instead you can put something into /etc/skel so that all newly created
> users get consistency and old-timers get left as they were,
>

That's the Gnome way: make decisions for the users, assuming that what
the dev wants is exactly what the user wants. The KDE way would be to
make it konfigurable, where the user can choose which side he prefers.
There would be six options:
1) On the left
2) On the right
3) Application direction (right-to-left and left-to-right)
4) Application direction reversed
5) Use GTK default
6) CowboyNeal

Dotan Cohen

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