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Yuck, were those themes
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @07:46

I would never use those so called winning themes even if IBM gives me $3000 to use it for a month. I just abhor those themes. Now I see how artistic IBM is and their sense of beauty is very ....

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Re: Yuck, were those themes
by Thomas on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @08:38

Hey, come on,

this competition is made by the people who brought us OS/2!
'nuff said.

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OS/2 ..
by kde-user on Monday 17/Sep/2001, @01:55

ROFL!!!!!

OS/2 is the ugliest OS on planet earth.

I think the problem with this theme competition is that once the dot knew the competition was open, we only had approx two weeks to get our submissions in.

That is why the submissions just plain sucked.

Mosfet would win hands down if the competition was held now.

I also agree with the sentiment that IBM was not in touch with reality when they created this competition as the original requirement was for KDE 1 only, and KDE 2 was already out for quite some time.

Congrats to the winners, I am not taking anything away from you as I did not enter, so I can't complain :) but please be aware that you are lucky to win with such crap submissions.

I agree with hosting a themes.kde.org site ... that would rock.

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Re: Yuck, were those themes
by Peter on Wednesday 03/Oct/2001, @14:46

Asif - You apparently knew little about the contest.

Prize money is donated to non-profit open source organization, not the creator. So if you're intentions are as pure as you puport them to be, why didn't you enter the contest?

Submissions were not judge by IBM. They were judged by 2 external judges. Here's info on the judges. They most likely did not have many entries.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kde-c/?dwzone=linux

The results are not so much related to the judges as they are to the number and quantity of entries.

Obviously, it's easier to critcize than to actually create something.

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