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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