On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:45:15PM +0300, Ville Koskinen wrote: > 1) Old Amiga and Mac users, who like eye-candy, but also like a > functional desktop. > 2) Old Windows users who like the Windows paradigm. > 3) Old Unix users (mainly Linux but some OpenBSD). > > If I showed dwm to the people in group 1, the response I would get > would be "Oh, neat. I like the idea, but does it have to look that > ugly?"
I believe, if you use transparent terminals (best without any shading and a very bright or dark wallpaper) and a nice color scheme, a cool font, the minimalist but clear design will beat any KDE/Gnome/OSX desktop, because the user can concentrate on real work without abandon any eye-candy. And the terminal will behave much faster (due to suppressing any shading) that they will calm down. Also, if they think the way you told, they have no taste ;) The 1px decoration is a feature actually and its design is quite timeless... window decorations of Win2k, MacOS 9 or MotifWM, or CDE, look totally old-fashioned nowadays. Borders consisting of 1px won't be look old-fashioned in 10 years, because it depends on the clients you use ;) That's a killer argument. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
