Default Theme v. Community

[Paul Wagland]

On Fri 15 Oct 2004 01:07:07 PM CEST, Gareth Bowker wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:04 -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:25:16 -0500
>> "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn at forestfield.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Then what you want isn't software freedom.  What you want is a
>> > dictatorship where you and the other complainers who agree with you
>> > set the terms for what's acceptable and somehow compel someone else to
>> > implement your will at no charge to you.
>>
>> And that's *so* much worse than a dictatorship where a few developers on
>> a personal crusade ignore the wishes of 95% of their user base.
>
> Where do you get 95% from? Have you asked everyone who's running Ubuntu?
>
> Just because a lot of the replies about this have been criticising the
> new theme doesn't mean that it's a representative cross-section of the
> Ubuntu userbase. Personally, I like the images, but I'm not going to
> spend hours replying to all these messages about the new theme, putting
> my view across, because I've got better things to do with my time - the
> images don't matter enough to me to warrant spending my time putting my
> view across (although admittedly that's what I appear to be doing now!).
>
> Not knowing how many people are on this list, etc, I can't say for
> certain, but I assume there's a significant proportion of the list
> staying silent, who like the theme or are indifferent and just don't
> care enough about this topic to comment one way or another.

Well spoken that chap! And no I don't have the inclination to expound any
further.

Cheers,
Paul
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