Hi. I saw the other day that all the 3 DE’s in opensuse are preconfigurated to look like windoze, and I was curious.
Is there any special reason why all of them have to look like windoze instead of coming with their default looks? Also what will you guys do about gnome 2.30 (a.k.a gnome 3.0), I ask this because gnome 2.30 will drop the gnome-panel/gnome-desktop and replace that with gnome-shell. Which is a “activity-oriented”, uncustomizable, rigid and non-windoze-like desktop system.
It’s Windows, not windoze.
If you wish to change the way they look, install upstream branding packages.
IMO they don’t look like winblows.
There is no mistaking windows. It’s like when you are out walking and you stand in something brown and smelly. No mistaking it!
A few guys recorded a KDE4 session and went on the streets asking people what they think about the new Win 7. Every single one who responded after seeing the demo, liked it a lot and said it was easier/looked better. What they weren’t told is that this was KDE4 and not some next-gen Windows 
(can’t remember the link to the vid anymore, but I believe it was posted on this forum a while ago)
You are quite correct @microchip8
Just goes to show what we are up against. A world population that has taken on the persona of Homer Simpson. ‘Doh!’
Well yes it does seem that OpenSuse does have a windows like look, especially gnome in OpenSuse with slab.
But KDE3 and 4 looks the same as it does in most other distros I have used.
Hmm. Methinks you might be reading too much into this - perhaps it’s just convergent evolution? There really are only so many different solutions to simple problems, so inevitably different projects will end up with the same one. I always thought it looked much more like OS X than Windows.
Apparently one reason that the term ‘power outage’ became popular in the states is that the militant politically correct lobby (most of whom are bored and white) grew upset that the term ‘blackout’ might carry negative connotations. We might be calling it a ‘blackout’ because subconsciously, we’re all racists, and black things are bad. We might, alternatively, just be calling it a ‘blackout’ because when the lights go off it goes black.
What I meant is this.
OpenSUSE DE’s
Xfce
http://lizards.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/xfce4_21.png
Gnome
http://www.susegeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/gnome_deskscreen.png
KDE
http://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/103-kde-desktop.jpg
Vanilla DE’s
Xfce
http://portallinux.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/xfce.jpg
Gnome
http://portallinux.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/gnome.png
KDE
http://portallinux.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/kde-4.png
As you see. In opensuse all three DE’s have been configured to look like windows by default. While gnome/xfce in their vanilla state look very different from windows.
All very subjective.
eg; What one person finds attractive the next person might not.
I can’t see windows in any of those, and the two kde comparisons are different kde’s anyway.
Let me remind you what windows is like:
http://www.thecybersource.com/images/bsod.jpg
I know it’s subjective (And also know that windoze is crashed more than it’s running), but it would be nice if users had all 3 DE’s use their default looks upon install so that the user have an instant glimpse at which DE will be the one he/she decides to use (imagine if all the fruits at the market looked and smelt the same, it would be hard to pick one since there’s no differenciating factor among them).
So are you saying: All distro’s should use the generic style/theme for kde and for gnome etc…
Dude,
This is linux! You can make it look any way you want. The default DE’s that you’re talking about are starting points not rules.
You can make yours look like what’s here:
June 2009 Screenshot Thread - Page 5 - openSUSE Forums
See that’s not a windows look.