> On 30. Aug 2017, at 22:09, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org> wrote: > > On 2017 M08 30, Wed 16:20:07 CEST Luca Beltrame wrote: > ... >> In fact I think it would be worthwhile to present such options. I've >> seen KDE software used in places I did not expect (e.g. a research >> institute in agrobiology I visited a few years ago). >> >> That said, I think it would be also a good idea to see "what makes our >> software palatable for R&A" (which is potential reason 2 in your Phab >> task). At least in my field (bioinformatics) most do not even know it >> exists. > > Maybe most of them are using Windows ? > The full proposal also mentions Plasma, which basically means we would not > only try to get them to use KDE applications, but also to switch their OS to > Linux... > So, does this goal include supporting Windows as a first class target > platform > ?
Excellent point! I’d clearly say yes, it should also support Windows as a target platform! As I said in the proposal, I had wanted to use Kile and RKWard on my Windows machine at the university (which I could not switch to Linux because of institute policy) but I couldn’t because it was too difficult for me to make them run there. So providing better Windows support for the scientific apps we have would certainly be a valuable goal. I have now added - Make sure that our relevant applications are easy to find and install on Windows, since many researchers and students are still locked into Windows to the possible solutions for reason 2