On Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:29:22 PM CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > 1.- I believe that mobile/desktop convergence is not an emerging trend > > anymore. > > > > 2.- We do an innovative and modern desktop. Even if we do a "classical > > desktop", we should not state it that way in our mission. The next few > > years should be about keeping what is good about the "old concept" > > that took us here and evolving it. We are not dealing with cars from > > 1920 here. If we have to use quotes in a Mission statement, a document > > that should be crystal clear not just to ourselves but the "external > > world"... > > This is exactly the kind of question why I've set up the survey: I know that > some people still care a lot about the "classical desktop" (i.e. a thing > that runs on desktop and laptop PCs) whereas for others, desktop and laptop > PCs are just one among many device classes and form factors. > > Since the Mission should reflect where the majority of the KDE community > wants to go, I want to offer people the possibility to clearly state what > they care about more. This is why I have both variants in the survey and we > can see which gets what score.
The mission should also not alienate our developer base. If the mission states we aim for a classical desktop I would consider that a punch in my face. I'm working full time on a desktop, but I don't consider this as a "classical" desktop. I consider my work going on a very modern product, not something classical. Just my 2 cents Cheers Martin
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
