Re: Question about Akademy 2019 coverage

On 2019-09-21 21:16, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On zaterdag 21 september 2019 20:29:15 CEST Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> 
>> Btw., have we some concrete plans to promote our Windows offerings
>> in the future? I assume getting our applications more used on Windows
>> should provide a large increase in our user base and hopefully
>> developer base, too.
> 
> The developer base part was discussed at the onboarding sprint in
> Nurnberg. The idea that KDE applications have users on Windows was
> roundly dismissed. Apparently, there are none, because all Qt
> applications look too weird and out of place on Windows. Actually
> looking for developers on Windows wasn't even considered relevant
> despite Dmitry Kazakov's plea. See
> https://valdyas.org/fading/kde/kde-onboarding-sprint-report/ .

Hi,

I think there are only a few Windows users of KDE applications beside 
Krita/GCompris/...,
but not because they look out of place but more because they are not 
easily available.

I think our current effort to bring more of our stuff to the Windows 
Store might
change that.

Thought at the moment I am still first learning e.g. how to compile
the stuff there with craft and from a develop perspective that at the 
moment
seems to be harder than needed.

Actually, I think, there is a large market for our applications on 
Windows,
and I don't think staying away from let's say 90% of the desktop 
computer
users because they use some OS we don't love is a good idea.

Greetings
Christoph

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