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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Alan Kennington <ak1.linuxsa@topology.org>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:40:06 +0930

Re: comparative worth of Qt toolkit and GTK+ ?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:25:34AM +0930, Alan Kennington wrote:

 > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:24:00AM +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
 > > Gnome and KDE both come with preferences dialogs which end-users can use
 > > to select the theme they want. 
 > 
 > Ah, I dig. Themes are those things in the Control Center/Centre which I
 > don't use because they make half the icons and applications completely
 > unreadable. Yet another "user-friendly feature" for my list of gripes
 > about modern software! What's the point in designing a GUI if the user
 > gets to muck it all up?

What's the point of trying to write software for a GUI if you've only
installed half of it?

  - mark

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