Dapper Drake and Bird Flu

Anders Karlsson trudheim at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 14:01:10 GMT 2006


On 3/15/06, Øivind Hoel <oivind.hoel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/15/06, Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > You never played ZAngband or Moria I take it. When you encounter an
> > "Ethereal Drake" you are unlikely to hear it quacking...
> >
> > Drake is another word for dragon, albeit not that commonly used. As a
> > sidenote, "drake" is the swedish word for "dragon".
>
> Why haven't the KDE folks (with their baby dragon) used this in its
> propaganda (along with Mark stating he might well start using KDE as
> his default desktop in dapper drake)?

Your guess is as good as mine. Propaganda wise for KDE it was a bit of
a coup when Linus weighed in on the KDE side. It was what spurred me
to take another look at KDE. Even as late as KDE 3.2 I tested it and
discarded it as unusable, but 3.4 was a different cuppa tea.

Anyway, I have work to do :)

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Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>


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