- Ask user about their email address (stored separately of course) so we
can contact them! Ask if they are interested in something special
(quarter mails, new app version information, fundraiser, events in the
neighbourhood, other KDE people near them, etc. pp.)
That can be done in the kcm as extra opt-in, we don't want to present a
scary dialog on first boot, otherwise people will just run away.
That's just my humble opinion but honestly I think contact
information to our
users is much more valueable than any other data.
I guess they'll have a similar opinion - and therefore be rather reluctant to give it
away (to not be spammed by KDE or have their contact data in one more database to be
leaked from) - or they give you "m...@mail.com" (poor fellow who actually has
this addy ;-)
If the intention is to have a default pushnews service, i'd propose a default plamoid
that displays the "dot.kde.org" rss feed or something similar which is far more
defensive than asking them for their mail address.
Cheers,
Thomas
