"I'm not dead yet... I think I'll go for a walk..."

[volvoguy]

On Mar 25, 2005 12:34 PM, Philippe Landau <lists at mailry.net> wrote:

> > For those of you paying attention, my spinal fusion surgery was
> > cancelled because the workers compensation people "were on vacation
> > and couldn't authorize it".
> gangsters ...

Definitely. :o)



> did you see kubuntu ?
> such a vivid and happy contrast to the morbid gnome colours/icons.

The KDE/Gnome thing is always a tough choice for me. I prefer how KDE
behaves, but prefer how Gnome looks. You then have to decide which
project you want to terrify with your new graphics. :o) So far I'm
sticking with the original Ubuntu, but I'm sure Kubuntu will find it's
way on to one of my machines eventually.



> > The main reason I poked into my Gmail account was to recommend the
> > new-ish Clearlooks theme and was pleasantly surprised to see that it's
> > the default now. Excellent choice! Now we just need an easy way to
> > change colors! :)
> that would be great :-)

I agree.... and from the poking around I've done, the color changing
doesn't seem very hard - there's just no fancy GUI to make the
changes. If I can get things working right in my own (non-programmer)
brain, I'll try to document the steps to tweaking system colors.


> > Keep up the good works devs, let me know if I can help with anything
> > directly. If there's no super-tight deadline, it actually helps me
> > keep my mind off my aches and pains. :)
> do you also think these lists have lost some vitality ?

Vitality - no, I don't think so. The overall feel of the group seems
to have changed since the early days though (and not necessarily in a
bad way). I think we all had that "new toy" feeling at first, and now
that we've (or I've)  been using for "regular work", the new toy
excitement has worn off a little bit. In it's place though, it's left
a feeling of pride and confidence in our project and I think that's a
much better state of mind. Toys wear out - communities grow. :o)


-- 
Aaron

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