On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:21, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:48 +0100, Allan Day wrote: >> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:30, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For reference, the existing featured apps can be found on gnome.org >> >> [1]. Asking whether the applications on that page are the best >> >> non-core GNOME applications out there today might be a good way to >> >> proceed. Are there any obvious candidates that have been missed? Are >> >> there any new applications that are worthy of mention? >> Some possible candidates: VLC, Scribus, Transmission. Any other ideas? > > Evolution, Gedit? > And in case they are not suitable [yet], I'd wonder if we have criteria > for Featured Apps, and what they are?
As 'featured' is purely a marketing function, "are they marketable", is the only criteria. Basically, awesome and appealing to a wide audience. By that standard, I would exclude Evolution and Gedit; Evolution for a variety of factors: mainly, its stability and because it's competing against webmail at a time when the trend is strongly toward webmail and Gedit because it has a very narrow (though no less important) audience. Scribus and VLC (mostly) are Qt-based and so are therefore only tangentially in our ecosystem. Transmission is cross-toolkit though no less a good GNOME citizen. Frankly, we, like all the DE's, don't have a lot of shining examples to pick from because of the history of needless desktop fragmentation. My recommendation would be to slowly mutate this list on an on-going basis. -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
