[openbeos] Re: (No Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:26:37 +0100

  • From: "Chris Peel" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:20:16 +0100

You can't compare corporate users to home users.  And Haiku certainly won't
become a corporate o/s choice so that argument seems a bit moot really.  Of
course home users care about changing themes and icons - just look at all
the customisation sites there are for Windows, Linux, mobile phones and
pdas.

Seriously, if you base decisions for Haiku on a bunch of corporate users who
probably run locked-down versions of Windows then you're going to have a
problem...



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On Behalf Of Stefano Ceccherini
Sent: 07 September 2006 08:25
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: (No Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:26:37 +0100


2006/9/7, Chris Peel <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I suppose it's back to the same old chestnut again really - do you 
> want you o/s to be used by lots of people, or just keen supporters?

Actually, the "regular" user usually don't care about changing the theme or
the icons, he just wants a nice wallpaper and screensaver, in the 90% of the
cases. At least, that's what I've seen looking how the ~90 users I have here
behave. Might be different for the home user, but I wouldn't be sure. OTOH,
the "not-so-quite-power" user is the kind of user who customizes his desktop
completely... maybe a betheme-like app for >R1 wouldnt' be that bad.
Personally I wouldn't miss it anyway.

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