Re: string change, may we die a death of a thousand swords

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le jeu 30/01/2003 à 15:24, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:00, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > murrayc@t-online.de (Murray Cumming) writes:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:33, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > > Hi. jrb and I would like to make a string change. One of the themes is
> > > > currently named "Default", and this needs to change. The best name we
> > > > can find for the theme is "Simple", but this is confusing compared to
> > > > "Plain". Thus we'd like to rename "Default" to "Simple" and "Plain" to
> > > > "Traditional".
> > > 
> > > Could you tell us why? I suspect your  big "default background" thread
> > > has something to do with it, but it's not particularly clear.
> > 
> > Shipping a theme called 'Default' is bad.  It's rough on all packagers
> > (redhat, mandrake, presumably sun, etc) that want to change the default
> > to be somethings else.  They have to either:
> > 
> > 1) rename default
> > 2) remove default
> > 3) explain to their users that the theme named 'default' isn't the
> >    default
> > 
> > Also, if we want to change the theme later, it is kind of bad.  Consider
> > this conversation:
> > "Hey! nice theme.  What's it called?"
> > "I'm just running Default"
> > "My default doesn't look like that?  How do you get your default to look
> > like that?"
> > "Dunno.  It's just the default"
> > etc.
> > 
> > Finally, it's not very descriptive.  All the other themes are at least
> > roughly evocative of what they show.  Default is not.
> 
> Very persuasive. 1 release-team approval.

Second approval.. And I'm not wearing my "Mandrake" hat :))
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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@mandrakesoft.com>
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