> Substance counts a lot more than appearance to me. Of course, but we must not be "closed minds". Yes, maybe from the developers POV or from advanced user POV or some "geek" POV, the appearance isn't too important.
But common people (and my self) like "pretty things". Even when the eye-candy isn't related with if distro "works fine", why we should be ugly? Why can't we have pretty tools that looks and works nice? You think that MacOS is the "coolest" OS just because it's unix or because it works fine? No. People (the common people like some one's sister) love it because it's beautiful, looks great and they can tell friends "look at my screen... nice! I'm cool because I have a Mac!" If the only important thing is being unix and working fine, why Mac users don't use Solaris? Since I'm with Linux / Mandriva I remember talks about how slow is Perl and how slow are MDV tools and why not to use some better programing language (I think someone said "C" once?). So, if someone says "we must change something to be better", please, don't say "NO" in the beginning without any chance. IMHO that we're in a special moment. A moment where we must look the brightside of the situation: we're starting. This is the moment when we must think and evaluate in the most crazy ideas, the most radical ideas. Because once you started to roll, changes must be made one bit at the time. But if we didn't start, we can say "this isn't useful anymore; let's change it / rewrite it / leave it forever". We're forking MDV, yes. But MDV shouldn't be seen as some kind of "sanctuary" where "things can't be touched" (not even the "holly" MCC). Personally, I joined Mageia because I believe we can make things better than Mandriva did. I won't look to the past. I want to look to the future. I'm not afraid of changes. Cheers! Gustavo Giampaoli (aka tavillo1980)