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by buddy_love on Wednesday 05/Dec/2001, @20:36

looks like windows, i use linux to get away from it...but kde wants to be the windows interface of linux. buggar.

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Re: ho hum
by Carbon on Wednesday 05/Dec/2001, @22:39

What are you talking about? The printing interface is completely different from Windows' for several reasons:

1) It's Open Source. Windows' is not. Hello!
2) It's not proprietary. CUPS uses plain old text files, whereas I still can't make heads or tails of the Windows driver packaging system.
3) It's not annoying! The most annoying thing about Window's UI is that it often assumes the user is an idiot, and proceeds to make good on that assumption. In Linux and KDE (or any OSS Nix and any OSS UI) any administrative GUI is just a frontend to configuration files and console tools. If you don't want to use the GUI, ignore it.

And besides, if you dislike KDE's UI (and basically KDE is a UI) then what in the world are you doing spending time on KDE's news site?
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Re: ho hum
by tryme on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @04:52

This person is simply a TROLL! He or she must be jealous of KDE! :)

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Re: ho hum
by Michael Goffioul on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @04:13

KDE wants to be user-friendly and usable, even for Linux newbies. And apart
from the many bugs in Windows and the marketing policy of M$, I still think
that M$ is quite good at doing user interfaces that are easy to use. So what's
the point if you use some ideas from Windows world?
Beyond that, M$ only used ideas that seems natural: a combobox to select a
printer, a listview to see jobs, ... It's not windows, it's natural. I admit
that the print dialog layout is inspired from Office, but changing the layout
just to avoid resembling Windows doesn't make much sense to me.
If Linux wants to enter the enterprise, you need to provide a good UI to your
customers. Most people are using M$, so it's much easier for them if you
provide an intuitive interface where they can find they way quickly and easily.

When I switched to Linux, I also wanted to get away from Windows. Not
especially from its user interface, but more from its monopoly and marketing
policies.

Michael.

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Re: ho hum
by David McClamrock on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @14:33

So print from the command line if you want. Maximum Linux appeal for "recovering Windows addicts" will be achieved when KDE can look as familiar to them as they want it to, and works better than Windows in *every* way, including printing. I'm all for it!

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