Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-10 Thread Alex Hudson
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 22:43 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > We are saying that GNOME is not a product downloadable by itself but > something that can be just tasted and tested through a disto and that > the strong label in Desktop Linux. I think actually we're talking about what value 'GNOME' might have

Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-09 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Santiago Roza ha escrit: > i think we shouldn't be promoting gtk apps in order to boost the gnome > brand, because: This time I don't agree. :) We are saying that GNOME is not a product downloadable by itself but something that can be just tasted and tested through a disto and that the str

Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-09 Thread Santiago Roza
i think we shouldn't be promoting gtk apps in order to boost the gnome brand, because: - real-life gnome desktops (like ubuntu or fedora core) default to openoffice.org, and sometimes they don't even INCLUDE "gnome office" (abiword, gnumeric, etc)... so in the dubious case we actually get people t

Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-09 Thread Alex Hudson
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:21 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > En/na Murray Cumming ha escrit: > > I see no need to have separate GTK+ and GNOME brands. Let them be GNOME > > applications. > > This is all I wanted to read. If it's clear we have 'GNOME applications' > able to run on MS Windows, then we can s

Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-09 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Murray Cumming ha escrit: > I see no need to have separate GTK+ and GNOME brands. Let them be GNOME > applications. This is all I wanted to read. If it's clear we have 'GNOME applications' able to run on MS Windows, then we can shameless promote GNOME as (also) damn good free software you

Re: How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-09 Thread Murray Cumming
> - How interested is the GNOME project promoting Epiphany and the GNOME > Office tools over Firefox and OpenOffice.org (we could add here > Evolution vs Thunderbird). I don't think there's much to gain from promoting Epiphany. I think we've lost that struggle with the distros, because the Firefox

How interested in promoting GTK apps? [was Re: real marketing or just catchy slogans?]

2005-12-08 Thread Quim Gil
Precisely today I was thinking about Epiphany and the GNOME Office suite. GTK is something specific to GNOME, and GTK can be the horse of Troja of GNOME in the MS Windows world as (Dave?) pointed recently: you can just download and try. But then we have OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla family as tw