Re: My Article on KDE 4

On Friday 03 September 2010 22:34:58 Justin Kirby wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Kunal Deo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have recently written an article about KDE 4 and GNOME. Both from user
> > point of view and a developer's point of view. Also, I think this article
> > could be linked from KDE.org as well.
> > 
> > http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/gnome-vs-kde/
> > http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/kde-gnome-cross-desktop-development/
> 
> Hi Kunal,

Anyone know if Kunal is subscribed? Or did you put him in bcc? Anyway, ccd 
here.

> Thanks for taking the time to write these articles.  Could you tell us a
> little more about your involvement in LinuxUser and perhaps a little about
> the magazine itself?
> 
> If you've got any ideas for future KDE related articles please don't
> hesitate to reach out to us pro-actively.  As Nuno mentioned we can get you
> very beautiful/professional screenshots and can also provide feedback in
> terms of making sure everything is as factually accurate as possible.
> 
For example, you stated "KDE SC is the new name for the KDE desktop 
environment". It's really not :-( The term you were looking for was 'Plasma 
Desktop'

Regarding the articles, I found them interesting, but I'm not sure about 
linking from KDE.org. We tend to do that (from dot.kde.org) when there are 
reviews of new KDE software releases, particularly when they are saying very 
nice things ;-) Your first article is a balanced comparison but has a few 
things that we'd see as inaccurate (still and implication that GNOME is the 
choice for people who care about free software) and as Nuno mentioned the 
screenshots are not really representative. Also, we tend to steer clear of 
GNOME vs KDE debates - we'd rather just let people know about the great stuff 
we're doing. As you note, our philosophies are quite different and to some 
extent we serve different audiences.

As for the second article, it's good for a general audience magazine, but I 
think most of our people would know about that already and I'd be surprised if 
it isn't in our documentation somewhere (I'm no developer, so stating that a 
bit blindly).

Please feel free to let us know when LinuxUser has reviews of KDE software. We 
sometimes link to those from the Dot*, particularly after one of our release 
days (when we release our Plasma workspaces, the KDE Platform and Applications 
all together). Likewise, as Justin said, we're happy to provide assistance in 
getting resources for articles such as screenshots and answering questions

Cheers,
Stu

* see http://dot.kde.org/2010/08/14/kdes-new-releases-make-splash
 
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