On Friday 06 January 2006 17:45, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
(this one goes to gnome-marketing and kde-promo) I have thougth about marketing GNOME for some time and came to this conclusion: We do not want to sell GNOME and we don't want to fight against KDE. So there is only one solution. We must market FreeDesktop instead! I would suggest to market GNOME and KDE together on many, many occasions. All Desktops must be presented as options that make a free desktop richer. Nobody would say it is bad to have Sylpheed AND Evolution as mail clients. KDE and GNOME do have different histories. And I don't see any of each going away in the next years. I would like to see each teams trying to get better. i think that both desktops enormously profit from better interaction. But this should not only be seen from the developer perspective. Many users mix application usages. There are definitely applications on both sides that outmatch any of the ones on the other side. The distributions do market both desktops together like printing KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10 as features ont their boxes. I don't know if freedesktop.org would be the right place to start with this kind of collaboration or if this is the right time or if people involved really want that? I think every effort to market one desktop will fail as long as there are so many options (also Xfce and others). I think it makes things not easier of you want to market two and more desktops, but is easier still then if each crew tries to get users from the other. We better should say that people should either stay at the desktop they like or encourage them to try out themselves. That would not mean that marketing the own desktop should not happen any more, but this should happen for one goal. Windows does also profit from a rich pool of applications. We should also not hesitate to recommend and application from the other side if that really is better. This is better for the users. What do you think?
It'd be stupid to not walk that route. Thanks, Thilo, for bringing this issue into discussion. Can someone ask FDO for a mailinglist, so we can share a couple of thoughts? -- sebas http://www.kde.nl | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Truth is hard to find and harder to obscure.
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