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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: why is there so little KDE PR ?
From:       Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-19 9:16:39
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> others concentrate on it instead of reacting negatively.  If you do

Hm, strange -- I don't remember to have replied negatively ("our PR is very 
good", " a very good cycle", "I like what I see on", "If the PR-guys think 
that they even can improve our PR - then it is fine for me"). Ah, you mean 
that I disagreed with you? Shame on me ;^)

> don't have to.  But does that mean you have to oppose those that do care,
> does it?

Did someone? At least for me I only remember that I said that I am very happy 
with the PR concerning KDE on dot.kde.org  etc. I only expressed that there 
is nothing that one should really worry about if we continue like this. Sure, 
there are still some areas where we could improve a lot. Especially should be 
mentioned that we need more articles  and books on the topic of  how to 
develop KDE-apps. I think that finding people who write such books/articles 
in books/(printed) magazines is the most improtant thing we need right now to 
make more people work on KDE-apps and thereby create more news about KDE.  

> I spend a good deal of time speaking with non-techie people, and a lot more
> of them (at least in the US) are hearing about GNOME and don't know about
> KDE. Why?  B/c Gnome is in the news.

Well, KDE is by far most popular here - but as people have the same internet 
here as in the US, maybe it's not only related to the articles/news etc. in 
the internet?

> Could you explain what those are?  Offlist is fine with me.

Yes, I'd rather discuss that privately.

> What I suggest is that the release cycles not be *forced* to coincide. 

I don't remember that any maintainer of the packages has been forced to 
release together with KDE 2.1

> > And  "But there is no reason why Konqueror could not be released more
> > often" is absolute nonsense as Konqueror *is* KDE2, as it is "just" a set
> > of components representing the functionality of kdelibs. I doubt that it
> > would make sense to release konqueror independent w/o kdelibs.
> So Simon's Konqueror-embedded made no sense, in your opinion?  Where your

*Sigh*, did I talk about Konqueror or Konqueror-embedded?

> Releasing things in a natural manner which also optimizes publicity instead
> of force-releasing everything on the same cycle has, IMHO, nothing to do
> with "warm air".

No, these are two different issues which I have discussed seperately as you 
might have noticed (in the same mail though). And still I see nobody who has 
been forced to release his/her app together with KDE 2.1.

ok, let's continue the discussion on kde-pr.

Greetings,
Tackat



> [ ... ]
>
> Ciao,
>
> Andreas Pour

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