I wonder whether going forward we would be better served by asking the question of our users, 'What do you need KDE* to be for you?'
Because essentially we are saying that with plasma 5 and kf5 it could be anything you want it to be. Maybe we should start by splitting this into commercial and consumer needs and take it from there. I know from my company that KDE would suit us as KDE for Windows would allow us to slowly shift over desktop apps first, before swapping out the o/s from underneath. We can't be the only company in a similar boat. *By KDE here im referring to the software, as I'm not sure what the term is for the amalgamation of plasma 5 / kf5 & applications Ps. Typing this on my phone in a tent in Wales, UK, so sorry if it reads a bit disjointed. On 20 Sep 2014 22:00, "Aaron J. Seigo" <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Saturday, September 20, 2014 10.15:56 Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > > On Friday 19 September 2014 19:04:53 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Lake <jamboar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Image: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/19/A_possible_vision.png > > > > > > I would say "Plasma and Frameworks at the center." > > > > I think it's right to put the KDE desktop in the center in addition to > the > > KDE frameworks. It's Plasma and the application which are our base and > > where we are coming from. It's this whole set which gives us the > > integration points we can use to expand to cloud, to devices, to other > > services. The desktop is a great starting point. > > Plasma was intended as a way to move beyond the "desktop" while retaining > the > "desktop" as a first class citizen, so that paragraph contains some irony. > > I use "desktop" in quotation marks because the end-user computing tasks > performed on laptops and desktop computers have been moving to > non-"desktop" > form factors for some years now while the "desktop" type hardware has been > slowly adopting some hardware characteristics of non-"desktop" devices. > Fixating on "the desktop" is to bury one's head in the sand about that > reality. > > Finally, the desktop has always been the primary focus. It has never not > been > the starting point. (Despite Plasma's goals.) > > This vision sounds like it comes from KDE circa 2005. Perhaps that's the > goal, > since as Andrew wrote, "These thoughts are not intended to suggest an > entirely > new direction." However, this leaves me slightly stumped as to what the > goal > is here. > > Is it to remind KDE what it is, because that's been forgotten? > Is it to reaffirm what KDE is as a means to pull back into its own center? > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community >
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