From kde-promo Wed Oct 11 14:08:57 2006 From: "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:08:57 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: [kde-promo] promo through tutorials with real life examples (was: Message-Id: <200610111608.58018.friedrich.w.h () kossebau ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=116057576308119 Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 21:08, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 12:24, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 18:02, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > > > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 4:02, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Sabayon's nicest parts are fatally flawed. the "do it in an xnest window" > has real issues on thin client systems, as was demonstrated to me (and a > room full of people) a few months ago at an ubuntu conference. Curious... what breaks there with thin client systems? > > > > KDE-Apps.org is known, but there > > > > are too much choices and no concrete recommendations. We need more > > > > simple 3rd party success stories for these apps, and these should be > > > > prominently linked. > > > > > > a "app recomendations" site? e.g. that lists categories and then the > > > application for that category that is recommended, with a screenshot, > > > short description and a couple of links? in other words, something more > > > centralized and edited versus the community bazaar that kde-apps.org > > > is? > > > > No, more of the type: "Cool, I solved this and that problem with it.", > > showing that it works. "Really works", not only "Should work" (as it was > > e.g. with KOffice mostly, sorry). Real life tutorials. Tutorial wiki. > > User maintained docs. Or something. Things you find with Google and get > > impressed, seeing a solution for your problem. 3rd party KDE apps like > > KNoda here should get (inofficially) helped with promotion, too. > > ah, so a task-oriented set of howtos? (trying to understand better here =) Yes, with real life examples, not made up ones. > > New tutorials could be in a monthly KDE journal... just thinking aloud. > > would this work well with Daniel's thoughts on "example workflows"? Yes, that direction (do not have a very clear idea, myself). And they should be references, from externals. Cannot back it, but I think external references work well for a better reputation and trust in the advertised promises, guess that is why references are used in many other places (product ads, job applications, ...). Friedrich _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.