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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Walt Mossberg
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2007-09-18 4:58:22
Message-ID: 46EF5AEE.3080005 () acm ! org
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Robert Knight wrote:
> Hello James,
> 
> I really do not think this is the best mailing list to discuss press
> feedback about the Linux desktop in general, especially when neither
> the article in question, nor your response deals with KDE directly.
> 
Are you the InterNet Police? :-D

Might I first comment that I seem to have left out a paragraph about 
polishing rough edges.

IAC, My point refers back to an earlier posting.

My posting is not about "press feedback", it is about user feedback. 
Mossberg writes a column as a *user*, not a reporter (which you would 
understand if you read his column) -- it is like a blog that happens to 
be published in the WSJ.  As such it is very widely read.  But the issue 
is that he does represent the thoughts of may computer users.

Many (or most) developers don't seem to understand why Linux doesn't 
achieve a larger share of the desktop market.

I stand by my previous statement that this will happen only when users 
such as Mossberg think that a desktop running on it works just as well 
as other desktops.  This will happen when we improve the product.

The audience which I address this to is: developers.  Therefore, the 
developer list is the most appropriate place to post this (rather than 
posting it elsewhere and hoping that developers happen to see it).

Specifically, how is this relevant to KDE?  Well if KDE worked lots 
better than GNOME, I could drop him a line and tell him that his opinion 
was based on GNOME and that KDE works much better and would solve all of 
his issues.

I can't do that yet because I feel that KDE has many rough edges that 
need to be polished.  They aren't going to get polished till the KDE 
developer community realizes that this needs to be done sometime before 
KDE achieves world domination of the desktop.

-- 
JRT
 
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