From kde-core-devel  Fri Jan 09 17:31:29 2004
From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle () danka ! de>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:31:29 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Bling Bling KDEPIM on OSX (aka kmail)
Message-Id: <3FFEE571.8080909 () danka ! de>
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Andy Goossens wrote:

> On Friday 09 January 2004 16:00, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
>>Benjamin Meyer wrote:
>>
>>>>The others look cool, hope you consider entering the competition for a
>>>>G5 http://www.trolltech.com/campaign/maccontest.html
>>>
>>>Me and Benjamin (Ranger Rick Benjamin) plan on entering KDE into the
>>>contest. It would be some nice press if we won.
>>
>>I think you should submit more than once -- even 20 times:
> 
> (snip)
> 
> It would be hard not to break the contest rules though...
> http://www.trolltech.com/campaign/maccontest_rules.html
> 
> "The binary submission must be completely self-contained, with all binary 
> dependencies (except Qt) inside of the .app bundle. The binary *must* be 
> linked against Qt/Mac 3.3 shared linking"

OK - reduce it to libs - base - network - pim.

> KDE as a whole has a lot of dependencies. All those things would end up in a 
> *huge* bundle.
> 

So be it. The price is "huge" too.

> 
> "Entries must not have won previous awards."
> KDE already won several awards.
> 

OK -- didn't read the rules.

Would that exclude KDE, Version 3.2? Or is that sentence "didn't
win previous awards" just meant for the OS X platform? KDE hasn't
won anything there yet. If you have a killer-app, having won
lots of awards on Win or *NIX, this would be ruled out from
being worth to give such an award. As I understand it the Trolls
want to (rightly) encourage porting efforts. So, of course, you
want encourage ports of very *successful* programs from other
platforms because this gives their toolkit more publicity than
a follower-up being ported... Just my 5 Cents.   ;-)

Maybe, if submitted, even *if* excluded out by the rules, KDE
could at least receive a sort of extra-ordinary honorary price
by the jury, or something like "the Mac World Visitors Pick"...
After all, KDE is one of the largest OSS/Free Software projects
on this planet. And, basically 1 good toolkit and 2 people
succeeded in their X-Mas holidays to get the thing up and running
on Mac OS X. Imagine that! We, KDE should start being a bit
more confident about ourselves again. Just My Not So Humble
Opinion.

In the end the *winning* is not really so important... I'm just
looking for ways to make KDE very visible in areas where it went
largely un-noticed so far.

Cheers,
Kurt