On Monday, May 09, 2016 17:54:13 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi everyone, > thank you all for the feedback! > It seems we're now in a mode of fleshing out details, for which I find > emails not optimal. Therefore, I've put up a my original of the draft on > the Wiki [1] (where we can all edit it while keeping all revisions > available), then I immediately created a first revision, trying to > incorporate the ideas which were brought up in this thread. > > I've also added promoting development of Free software in general as a goal, > under which I've put creating libraries, mentoring and collaboration with > other orgs sharing our values, since all that has become quite important > for KDE over the years. > > So, feel free to edit the Wiki page, or bring up points for further > discussion here. > > Let's finish our mission before we lose interest ;)
thanks for pushing :-) No objections from my side, just a few thoughts, in no specific order: * I don't like the term "reach <somebody> where they are", to me this always kind of implies that the person in question is currently somehow in a wrong place (in German: "die Leute da abholen, wo sie sind" :-/ ) Basically this is the "everyone" from the vision. So maybe "To be able to make the software available to everyone, KDE"... ? * To me, "classic desktop" does not really fit into "reach users where they are" * One could argue that to provide control, freedom and privacy for users, KDE's products do not only need to have those properties, but the products actually need to cover a substantial range of the users needs. IOW, e.g. by offering a range of niche nerdy applications, let's say 3D printer software and a desktop ruler, we wouldn't do much to achieve our vision. So, should there be some mention of what we want to "produce" ? Something like desktop, office, education, creation, etc. ? * you mention "embedded". I haven't seen any comments here e.g. from KF5- or plasma-developers expressing strong interest. * "on major [...] OS" -> "on all major [...] OS" ? * "have consistent [...] interfaces", "available on major [...] OS, e.g. by applying Qt" can easily be interpreted that Qt (and our set of libraries) is used to achieve portability and consistent user interfaces, which could easily be interpreted as e.g. a gtk-application is not part of our mission... * the two last points of "to create a convincing user experience" are quite generic and inconcrete, i.e. they don't add much tangible Alex _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
