[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] List: kde-www Subject: Way to success? From: Sebastian Faubel <s.faubel () web ! de> Date: 2002-10-17 20:02:59 [Download RAW message or body] Dear people, i actually believed i was a member of the kde webdevelopment team, and being the designer of the layout i would have something to say regarding the implementation. Unfortunatly the past few days thougt me something totally different... I was very keen on having the chance to take KDE a few steps forward, and the website, which is the most common and important form of promotion, to a level beyound any competition - even microsoft's website these days. This was my dream. I really wasted a lot of time in the past 3 weeks to making graphics, ideas, writing guidlines for webmasters and thoughts of how to organize the final implementation...i also regrettably neglected my money bringing projects - for what? Nobody cared or even read my proposals. It seems that nobody wants to hear my voice, and nobody cares of what thoughts stand behind the current published state of my layout. There were recently some websites published, showing the "new design" - my new design. Showing me that people don't even think when they're posting.. + http://promo.kde.org/newsforge/kde-3.1.html Using elements of the "new layout" - even before it's done. Showing the logo which still contains the "Alpha" brand. + http://usability.kde.org/newdesign/ Using a totally crapped sourcecode, this new "one panel" layout is even less downwards compatile to resolutions than my first "two panel" alpha. Moreover this so called "layout" doesn't even implement font faces, the css is more than the half size longer than mine... forgetting about what wonderful heredity options even CSS 1 supports. Being the website of the KDE usability team, i ask myself about the intuitive navigation and style elements... Didn't we agree on using the "two pane" layout, like also the users on kde-look voted for? Are the voices of users and kde promoters and finally mine really that irrelevant? If this is the case, i will quit any work i've done for kde so far, and you are free to delete my cvs account and do with my stuff whatever you want. Anyway, do you think it is a proper way to "upgrade" the website of the biggest opensource project on earth by simply letting anybody posting his stuff into a big hive amd by NOT comunicating with each other? Do you really think this is the way to succeed the current state of things? Coming to the point: If this trend continiues, that everybody is just taking my stuff or making pages, layouts & co without talking to me about it - you have seen me the longest time. greetings, sebastian PS. I attached a "one panel" version of my layout, for people to see what benefits the other one has.... I definitly refuse to use it. ["kdewww-20021017.tar.bz2" (kdewww-20021017.tar.bz2)] BZh91AY&SYxR 3(}R>՚l_tol>绺d)}_{))N6AF(tU$R EI%f( 2dF L x4cDi14`=10D ɉhDɣ&bi&T"M0d xiFh5O=O@`M4LiMGzOTލ<iOb#M1&m4hxS2 DTOB4Ȟ? 2z&hO4S5?SSxC$OeʍڛFS?OS)cD MFi&O~?S'xMɔ jjzhF5<Sdhh34!Cjh2=# LLhA \ iCAS i 4"y0z4Fj2hښl)(yCM OQ16=CPzQ66AHMPړyAmGi4OQ i4ژ Mɓ2hi4ؑAO?M5 )bGSOC@jm'i$zD<OS4fiyuZ-gzr?DzN)m \ ,˹$a8}Չj3 #@M#)Tא~h`,>~F</ \ 4XLArGEJ0@6{B*F!to#jAᮐL6*n숃!Yi64-(K \ ާrM'˛#L`sj<s5qzmk̶T>N6\=OƒDXm5r^$f7(,0b \ D</qoQߺ1Kd8ka+d+ݢm@68=wnSk$dKU+;!lV3*ecN ފΔMt=a^^߸R6.. %_l'ˮ*<іg6hW* "C F/d \ z*@kDGI? FlBTTm3d4Z&,3>B \ kaD^`h_Up \ 1!,0"{6b5v͵|~{?ti_D5T4$P aD$-މ@r.[#\D <b-ѰF7z; ^rUv ?=`1~MY*+H3l +.ɭ0=X[ \ 摾w%wwҗXW*5pN~ßޥ^=mrڒh03`r5V!'i;1X{<6K<Dj~7D@[g: \ }\;aZ\1` \ L af9ccLi&Fw'E?Uw=^` \i&Ti \ 7eA+JؘD& #Sf"F4-[mAE1 #*io=s!mw=3;vB &2B\R^1 ͟i|6f%f- XRiL#T Ģ `>'m!- aK뙅Kc=|Lpl{;'",Y0:00|*تpX@QQEm*|XMﺿSd{I \ 7 +0)iVތk&E ]:/T/)"F 0cwv_]*=3+\i>i[?&pn&1=M㻻ݸJ/ڌ;izBpRQ(4UWWbշ^*(n:"a"ܤg|l/Y}vK<n1KH \ BGmaƭs\[R \ f7h{$i~y&=;t5avD@"y/*WxMR g""xdXF \ l;\#j4)zV*}{4<qVVWճ8+geOr\0Tttz~y+&u \ "gYS+6μ4uv|g|t=,oˎ|^8_cs *] \ O[kUb5V7_R @ A)A{rm~` \ z6"O2j^Fg</_Wz4)]HwDj6gɹzXAV/^dJO$d#La`Rv'=ˡ5Ƙ@2Y h6H:[q9z:68g}nbAaep0Tf څ65,=i}RlrE([ \ U^[5x3D>E[SȤ9,N95ZKҗ0f# SIҲċ \ kr. 5BMXbv <1n!a%>^h{J `mmVvu0u6ZȔ FԖJrM9 ct!ΤχB3w72el͋*) BјM`*F \ S$\y0L@4CфZӟ2]B|Lb%QOEEykbo~ujyc{*\TՃE<>ա& \ *YYeY嵳`boKŜ|m&_*7*rjH(A)Op4t}2%TbsC.Yvk8֗v]AbKD߲42:;ϯ"O="$ ]e <