Re: KDE Applications 17.04 annoucement ready for comments

El dijous, 20 d’abril de 2017, a les 11:57:56 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> El dijous, 20 d’abril de 2017, a les 8:27:34 CEST, Paul Brown va escriure:
> > On Thursday, 20 April 2017 05:44:25 CEST Ivana Isadora Devcic wrote:
> > > Thanks, Albert! There's a typo in this sentence:
> > > 
> > > "If you are teaching or leaning to play music, you have to check out
> > > 
> > > > Minuet."
> > > 
> > > "leaning" should be "learning".
> > 
> > Whoops. Sorry.
> 
> Fixed.
> 
> > > Also, I would suggest to move the following part from the intro:
> > > 
> > > "Kajongg, KCachegrind and more (Release Notes) have now been ported to
> > > KDE
> > > Frameworks 5. We look forward to your feedback and insight into the
> > > newest
> > > features introduced with this release
> > > 
> > > We have discontinued the following packages: pim-storage-service-manager
> > > and kommander. This will help us focus on the rest of the code.
> > 
> > I don't think the paragraph above is relevant to anybody, except the very,
> > very initiated, and the very, very initiated will probably read the
> > changelog. I say cut it.
> 
> I removed the "discontinued" part, left the "ported to KDE Frameworks 5"
> since people in forums regularly ask about that for several apps.
> 
> > > K3b has joined the KDE Applications release."
> > 
> > This, on the other hand, is good.
> > 
> > > and place it under the "And more!" subheading, because it doesn't make
> > > much
> > > sense to just tack it onto the introductory paragraph without any
> > > connecting thoughts/information.
> > 
> > Agreed. It is not relevant to the intro.
> 
> Done.
> 
> > > Instead of that, you could end the introduction with a modified version
> > > of
> > > Paul's sentence, and just write "Enjoy your new software made by KDE!",
> > > or
> > > something like that. Just a suggestion, of course; you don't have to. :)
> > 
> > "Enjoy you new apps!" is shorter and the context is clear: we mention KDE
> > in the text A LOT.
> 
> Done
> 
> > I would change the image of KAlgebra to one of KAlgebra on mobile. I know
> > these images are tall and narrow and that messes a bit with the
> > formatting,
> > but the big news with KAlgebra is precisely the convergence thing and the
> > snaps taken from a mobile (of which you have 3), are more interesting.
> > Maybe the one with the 3D function would be best, because it is cool
> > looking.
> I tried that, it looks really terrible layouting wise, either the image is
> too small and you see nothing or it's too big and the text on the left is
> really really empty, will try again but can't commit to change it.

Tried again and i guess it's not that bad, changed it to the image you 
suggested, you're the expert ;)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > > 2017-04-20 1:16 GMT+02:00 Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>:
> > > > Just finished putting up Paul's version (with some minor changes of my
> > > > own) on
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.0.php?
> > > > iknowthisisunfinished=true
> > > > 
> > > > You've got ~16h to comment.
> > > > 
> > > > My minor changes from Paul's version are:
> > > > 
> > > > Removed "The very newest and best collection of apps for Plasma is
> > > > ready
> > > > to hit your desktop."
> > > > because our apps are not "for Plasma", they work in any desktop
> > > > environment.
> > > > 
> > > > Removed "Enjoy your new desktop!" because what we are releasing here
> > > > is
> > > > just apps "nothing to do" the desktop.
> > > > 
> > > > Removed "Literally dozens of libraries – the backbone of the KDE
> > > > framework
> > > > and apps – have been improved and stabilised, making life easier for
> > > > developers, and contributing to a nimbler experience for end users."
> > > > because even if it's true that KDE Applications release has some
> > > > libraries
> > > > they're meant to be internal to the apps (i.e. not shared with the
> > > > world
> > > > like KDE Frameworks) so i don't think it's worth speaking much of
> > > > libraries
> > > > when releasing KDE Applications.
> > > > 
> > > > Changed "Dolphin: Plasma's favorite file explorer" to "Dolphin: Our
> > > > favorite file explorer" because Dolphin works just fine outside
> > > > Plasma.
> > > > 
> > > > Changed some british to american spellings.
> > > > 
> > > > Added the three paragraphs above the "KAlgebra" section.
> > > > 
> > > > Of course i can be convinced those sentences need to make it back :)
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > >   Albert