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NunYa Bidness

KDE seems to be set up to pop up a gaudy look that is indeed cartoonish. Easily changed if you know KDE. unpleasant womany to do if you have never seen it before.

I know what some People mean about Mandrake. Cretinous login icons. Dumb looking dog, moronic cartoon penguins, stupid goldfish.

Dorky looky graphics, amateurish looking 'slideshow' slides, screensaver.

Truely bad wallpapers.

What Mandrive really needs more than anything else right now is a talented graphics designer with clbutt and a sense that for corporate America, they want a system out of the box that would not embaress one to see if an important client walked through the area.

And it would NOT hurt if Mandrake put up a site with alternative wallpapers, icons, and other stuff with professionalism in mind.

And somewhere on the desktop, an icon that leads to demonstrations as to where ALL of that sort of stuff is and how to quickly change it.

You don't need flashy eye candy. Just good solid, usable, professional looking, easily changed user interfaces that instill a sense of confidence this is not just something together by amateurs.

Bluntly, Mandriva does look irritatingly amateurish and often outright butt plug ugly.

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Cheerful Charlie