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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] [Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github</H1>
    <B>R&#233;mi Verschelde</B> 
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    <I>Sat Oct  2 13:10:02 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>2010/10/1 Frank Griffin &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>&gt;

&gt;<i> Gustavo Giampaoli wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Same way if you put the sweetest marmalade in an ugly and dirty
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; package. And you also put some dog sh*t in the most beautiful
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; packaging, with a nice ribbon.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Ask them &quot;please, pick one&quot;. Which one do you think people will pick
</I>&gt;<i> first?
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> You're overlooking that fact that if you are a commercial enterprise you
</I>&gt;<i> can pay people to tie ribbons around dogsh*t, but you'll find very few
</I>&gt;<i> community contributors who are willing to do that for their own
</I>&gt;<i> amusement and edification. :-)
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>
I do agree with Gustavo.
And what he tries to say is not &#171; functionality is irrelevant, let's focus
on design, guys &#187;. He says (or that's what I understood) that we should
consider aesthetics. And I think that in the whole community there might be
people who feel concerned about/are competent in graphic design, and willing
to improve GUIs.
I just think that we could let them improve things instead of saying &#171; don't
put your artistic hands in my code, it works so there's no problem if the
GUI is ugly &#187;.

Functionality is the most important aspect, but design is relevant.

For example : I never used the 3D desktop in Mandriva, but I convinced a lot
of my friends to try the distro showing them my funny cubic desktop. Just
because it looks great, not because it is useful.
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