Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > Reminder that we have a marketing meeting tomorrow:
I'm afraid that I won't be able to make tomorrow's meeting. I'll actualy be busy on Wednesday evenings for the next ten weeks. A few comments on a few of the agenda items: > Topics: > > 1) managing classic experience expectations Right now we don't know exactly what "legacy" or "classic" mode will entail (we don't even have a final name decided). There will certainly be window based alt-tab behaviour, an app menu and *some* kind of window list along the bottom of the screen. Many of the details are still to be worked out. The point is that this will not be exactly like GNOME 2, and we don't know what the quality of the new mode will be like. It seems extremely risky to promote a new feature when neither the design nor the implementation have been finalised. Raising expectations could lead to disappointed (although I obviously hope that won't be the case). How do we deal with this? First, we can try to convey the message that it the new mode is still experimental. We could even think about promoting the initial release as a preview release. Second, we should promote those 3.8 features that we can be more confident about. > 2) 2.8 marketing message and materials I presume this means 3.8. :) There is already a long list of new features for the next release. Going through them all, I think we can be confident that it will be fairly strong. Looking at the list of improvements, there are a few themes that stand out to me: * Settings - there will be at least three new settings panels (search, notifications, privacy) as well as reworked panels for power, network and color. There has been a huge amount of work invested. * There's a new story for search, with a new interface in the shell and the new settings panel. This is a new and highly visible integration point for applications. * Applications - Web, Documents, Contacts and Clocks are all getting a decent amount of work this cycle. * Polish - Every Detail Matters has been extremely successful this cycle. We also have Owen Taylor's graphics performance work and a new kind of pressure sensitivity for actions like the hot corner and triggering the Message Tray. There's also been a lot of work to refine and consolidate the big new features we had in 3.6, such as input methods integration and the lock screen. Oh, and the window selection part of the Activities Overview has been massively improved. There's a new potential messages we could talk about there: empowering users (through new settings) as well as increasing quality and providing a refined experience. In terms of materials, I would like to discuss how we want to handle the release notes for 3.8. We should also plan blog posts and news stories about new features for the run up to the release. Allan -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list