On Sunday 07 December 2008, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Am Sonntag 07 Dezember 2008 15:43:45 schrieb James Knott:
Herbert Graeber wrote:
What I meant was, that many people are seeing the bling only and are not seeing the additional value behind that. And to have that bling is neccessary to get new users.
I would seriously question the intelligence of someone who finds "bling" necessary. I put bling in the same category as those spinning wheel covers and other useless trinkets. Perhaps those people would be happier with a lava lamp.
Do you have pictures on you walls. Do wear clothes, which aren't gray?
For sure *I* do not need this what you call bling for myself. For most things I do with my machine I even do not need a Desktop at all. But I need it for convincing others, that Linux is not behind Windows or MacOS even in such silly features like bling.
If you want more development for Linux, you need more users. And bling will get some of them.
This is probably true. A Mac user once told me, having seen some *NIX desktop in action (can't remember which one -- this was years ago -- but it sure was short on bling bling in comparison to Mac OS), that it looked a bit "lacking" (whatever that meant); he then opined that Linux was not yet a "mature operating system" (his exact words.) Obviously, issues of functionality did not interest him; rather, he was disappointed he would not be able to show off with this "Linux" thing. This kind of user will never become a Linux user, I think, but I'm also afraid bling bling does matter now more than ever before. MS and Apple are taking care of that in their marketing -- going for form over functionality while coating all in gooey fudge to cover the lack of anything new. The press is buying into all this, of course. Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org