Re: Use new Konqi mascot

If you think that after your acts of gratuitous verbal violence and
intentional agression there is a way you can approach Tyson and "put him 
to good use", you are not just showing yourself as someone who isn't 
acquainted with the most basic decencies needed for human interaction,
you're also displaying a complete lack of insight in what makes people
contribute.

No artist will stand for being treated like this. This isn't the kernel
mailing list and you're not Linus Torvalds.

I understand that you sent these mails earlier, that they were held up in 
moderation and that you were making trouble to get them approved. Frankly,
that is something _I_ completely fail to understand. These mails might
be borderline constructive, but...

For the good of KDE, you really should consider dropping your involvement 
in this discussion. Apart from an unreserved, direct and full apology you 
cannot do anything positive or productive. Anything else just you stroking
your own ego.

With your rants you blew it, Oswald. Big time. You made people who have 
contributed a huge amount to the community leave and you gave us a black 
eye with the community of artists I've been nurturing around Krita so
carefully.

I hope that you are beginning to realize that.

  On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:48:28PM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>> Konqi [...] wasn't our first mascot [13],
>>
> that's an interesting point. i think there are two key differences here:
> - as you pointed out yourself, konqi has an enormous emotional
>  significance. changing now is some 100 times harder than when he was
>  introduced. especially without really good reasons.
> - nobody tried to market konqi as kandalf 2.0 (and as far as i'm
>  concerned, that would be only about twice as absurd as the current
>  proposal).
>
> as far as i can see, there are two reasonable ways to put the outcome of
> the contest to use:
> - ignore the actual artwork and put the artist to good use to actually
>  modernize konqi (which is kinda what nuno implied)
> - make the new artwork even more dissimilar to a dragon, stop claiming
>  that it is the new konqi, and try to organically introduce it as
>  something entirely new
>
> these options are not mutually exclusive, for that matter.
>
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