From kde-www Thu Jul 29 10:17:48 2004 From: Adriaan de Groot Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:17:48 +0000 To: kde-www Subject: Re: Fwd: Website Correction Request from palmOne Message-Id: <200407291217.57011.adridg () cs ! kun ! nl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-www&m=109111315603803 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Cooper (and Waldo and Lauri, but you I already know), It's gratifying to finally receive some attention from the company whose hardware you've been supporting for many years - even if it is a link-change request. On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:07, Waldo Bastian wrote: > Hi Adriaan, Lauri, > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Website Correction Request from palmOne > Date: Wednesday 28 July 2004 19:22 > From: "Cooper Marcus" > > I'm writing to request some updates on your website > http://docs.kde.org/de/HEAD/kdepim/kpilot/hotsync.html . > As you may know, palmOne, not Palm, is now the name of the company that > manufactures handhelds, and palmOne has acquired Handspring (the > originator of Treo smartphones). The issue of naming is one I've been struggling with recently - since I do indeed know that there has been some business turmoil. If you take a look at http://www.kpilot.org/ (scroll down to the trademarks section) you'll see I've tried to get it right (and if there's something wrong, do let me know and I'll fix it up - in particular who produces the Palm Desktop software). I'm somewhat surprised that you're requesting a change to one specific page which is a translation of the original English document (of which I am the primary author). There are probably translations in 50 different languages, and the originals are scattered about as well. We can't change the released versions of the documentation (which go back to 1998 or so), but for the upcoming KDE 3.3 release we can try to fix the URLs that you mention. The new documentation will supplant the old on the web as well. > > With these changes, there have been URL changes - > http://www.palmone.com/us/ is now the home page for palmOne, > http://www.handspring.com/ is now > http://www.palmone.com/us/products/smartphones/, and the palmOne store is > now at http://store.palmone.com/ Using /us/ links for potentially international users is not likely to be useful - I'm not sure whether our translation framework provides for changing URLs in a document. As far as I can tell, there is only one link on that page, to palm.com. I've changed that. > In addition, I suggest you no longer use the Handspring brand name - this > brand has been replaced by Treo smartphones. Similarly, the Palm brand > name is no longer used - please use palmOne when referring to PalmOS > hardware. Since KPilot supports all PalmOS-based devices (right back to the PalmPilot Pro 1000 I have in a box somewhere and including my Handspring Visor Deluxe), we cannot remove mention of such devices. As a sign of good faith, I've changed "the 3com Palm Pilot and similar products" to "PalmOne handhelds and similar products", on the grounds that you are more relevant than 3com. > Please note these changes going forward. What does that mean? > Thanks so much for your assistance in this matter. Do let me know if I can > answer any questions. - From a purely logical perspective, that last sentence is flawed, but I'll try to go for common understanding: sure, I have a question. I'm happy to cooperate with you in order to make the information presented about PalmOne handhelds as accurate as possible. Would you be interested in cooperating with us in order to make sure that PalmOne handhelds operate in our environment as best they can? You see, the underlying library for pretty much all PalmOS-based handheld development under UNIX-like systems is pilot-link (it's not developed by me, but I use it for my syncing application). For testing purposes (the APIs for various databases has changed in recent PalmOS versions) the developers of pilot-link need testing units; I believe they need a Tungsten T3 in particular in order to improve support for it. By supporting them, you support me and others who work support your products on Linux, BSD, MacOS, and others. Yours, Adriaan de Groot [ade] PS. Changes to the links as requested have just been committed; these will propagate to the webpages in the next few weeks. - -- "On top of that [watching KDE CVS] is interesting in a perverse way, like watching sausage get made. By very smart people." - dkite -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBCM7UdqzuAf6io/4RAsmEAKCA/4fKBXf2FnmrtKMOnsvuzjdPUQCgpjHC 8dETDaCh8Q+pY2pHYti32Uk= =Pp0P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-www mailing list kde-www@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-www