From kde-www  Thu Dec 18 09:33:27 2003
From: "M. Ritscher" <mr203010spam () gmx ! net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:33:27 +0000
To: kde-www
Subject: KDE Application Side - apps.kde.com
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-www&m=107174011210381

Hi all,

It's very unfortunate, apps.kde.com isn't online at the moment. I've always 
found it to be a valiable source and the most comprehensiv archiv of 
KDE-Applications. Looking for an application, I've always checked this site 
first.
Even more, I've added my own application there and encouraged two more 
developers to publish their application at this site. One of them I submitted 
myself being thankful for Andreas' corrections language-wise etc.
Not only didn't I find it disturbing that QT-Applications found their place 
there as well, I found that quite useful. I also found his binary packages so 
useful that I decided to subscribe for a whole year.
So I'd like to say thanks to Andreas even though there have been hickups 
regarding accessibilty of the site. And I hope he finds the means of bringing 
his site up to life again. (And these hickups where the reason I havn't been 
concerned regarding what has happened to a.k.c until about a week ago.)
Unfortunately, searching for an explanation of why this site is down wasn't 
that easy.
If it had'nt been for a.k.c, I still wouldn't know of quite a few useful 
applications!

As Waldo says "A puppy is not just for Christmas". I don't think these 
interruptions of the site's accessibility are really good for KDE's image. 
Long term encouragement is needed from a maintainer of such a site. But I 
think Andreas has just shown that! At least that's my impression.
Still I'm in favour of an a.k.o, espacially since every now and then I've 
accedently tried to access the application pool via a.k.o..

But what is important for me
as a user:
	-high availability
	-large and comprehensive selection of KDE applications
		- I personally would like to see OS-QT-Applications in there as well
		- I personally would'nt mind to see com-Applications referenced as
                  long as they are marked as such and identifiable as such
                  easily in the overview(unlike the Zaurus application 
                  database)
	-binary packages even if they are accessible via a subcription schema only
	-a good search functionality
	-plausible categories
	-_the complete database from a.k.c_
as a developer:
	-access to modify the data of my application(s)
	-proofreading before publishing
	-a reasonable fast publishing process

To sum up my mail:
Let me encourage you to cooperate with Andreas or vice versa Andreas please 
cooperate with the KDE-people!

And if needed, place a call for donations. I'm sure a lot of people will 
respond. (The success of this kind of call for donations from the 
SelfHTML-Team "http://selfaktuell.teamone.de/sonst/spenden.htm" gaining for 
EUR 5000 getting EUR 18000+ makes me strongly beliefe this to be a success.)

Thanks for listening!

Moppel

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