Re: Yet unannounced Plasma TV UI project

On lunes, 23 de marzo de 2020 16:46:48 (CET) Marco Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 4:18 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As it turns out, the discussion about the name of the product is premature
> > at this moment, as the product itself is not ready for release, at least
> > not officially as a KDE product, with its dot article and posts through
> > the official KDE social media accounts.
> > 
> > The product uses proprietary Google technology so, as it stands, it would
> > not pass the FLOSS smell test and can be seen by people outside our orbit
> > as a
> uses properietary google technology as kaccounts, as akonadi,
> and like those,

If you are talking about so you can use Kmail to connect to your GMail 
account, that is a bit different, isn't it? I mean, like the KIO slave for 
Google Drive,  you cannot expect to connect to Drive, which is provided by 
Google, without in some shape or form going through Google.

On the other hand, one can imagine using a voice-controlling technology 
without having Google harvesting your utterances.

> you don't have to use that backend
> https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customizations/stt-engin
> e (we could even have the whole voice interaction part to be opt-in at
> startup.. shrug)

That would be an excellent solution! Also make it easy to turn off. Once the 
user is warned about the Google back-end, that would be their responsibility, 
rendering all criticisms moot. I think I could spin that into a positive 
without any trouble.

I do think you should also look at Eike's points too and try and solve those 
so we can move ahead with this as this project has a lot of potential.

Cheers

Paul
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