Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We should bring this up as a thread on ddl when you've compiled it. (or maybe we should decide here whether we need to bring it up in DDL as a general discussion or to approach individual maintainers seperately) Personally, going with the maintainers is a better idea. Opening it up the peanut gal

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Simos Xenitellis
John Williams wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful, th

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote: > btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde > thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid > points we shouldn't be ignoring. I think that would be very helpful, thanks! -- marketing-list ma

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
> And thanks again to Santiago for collecting the negative reviews. Maybe > this will give his work more "oomph" in some people's minds? btw, i'll try to summarize all online comments about this linus/kde thing. from what i've read so far, they seem to have a couple valid points we shouldn't be

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Santiago Roza
> I'm not sure if processing feedback will be sufficient. no existing task is "sufficient" on its own, but there are many productive steps we could take. and definitely, processing feedback won't have any use unless developers do something about that feedback. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:31:51 -0800 Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's best we just let this pass and get back to business. :-) > No need to continue to drag this through the mud. Rather, this is our > opportunity to: > > a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent f

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:31 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Rather, this is our opportunity to: > > a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback > b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad. > > and other things. Hallelujah, brother! And thanks again to Sa

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-14 Thread Karl Fischer
May be the 2006 Marketing Slogan should be : Intelligence through Excellence ;) Karl On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 22:37 +0200, Žygimantas Beručka wrote: > An, 2005 12 13 13:29 -0500, Rajiv Vyas rašė: > > Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. > > Very smart and influential yes

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think it's best we just let this pass and get back to business. :-) No need to continue to drag this through the mud. Rather, this is our opportunity to: a) go through osnews/slashdot looking for decent feedback b) get a feel of what people think about GNOME both good and bad. and other things

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Santiago Roza wrote: > oh god... > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 Well the thread is slowly reaching troll stages on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and GNOMEUsability - so perhaps it would worthwhile to figure out what exactly Linus is getting at. And on second thoughts why not blog

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hi, On 12/14/05, Santiago Roza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As jdub would roughly put it "Don't Panic". > > well i never said we should panic, but it's something we should be > keeping an eye on. I don't see a reason to Panic. This flamewar has been going on for ages and will never end. So yes,

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Santiago Roza
> As jdub would roughly put it "Don't Panic". well i never said we should panic, but it's something we should be keeping an eye on. -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketi

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Jerome Gotangco
As jdub would roughly put it "Don't Panic". Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +639196555242 GPG: 0xA97B69A0 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Murray Cumming
> We need to thank him for generating so much press. That should raise our > profile in many trade rags. We need to tell the press people we are open > for > interviews and what not so that we can give people a balanced view. ;) Good idea. I've mentioned that on my blog, so it appears on planet

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Žygimantas Beručka
An, 2005 12 13 13:29 -0500, Rajiv Vyas rašė: > Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. Very smart and influential yes, intelligent no, YOU FUCKIN IDIOTS. Considering his mails should we market GNOME as 'intelligent' instead of 'usable'? :) It sounds cool and raises a quest

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We need to thank him for generating so much press. That should raise our profile in many trade rags. We need to tell the press people we are open for interviews and what not so that we can give people a balanced view. ;) sri On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:29:49PM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > Very s

Re: slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Rajiv Vyas
Very strong opinion from an extremely smart and influential guy. On 12/13/05, Santiago Roza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oh god... > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 > > > -- > Santiago Roza > Departamento I+D - Thymbra > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > marketing-list mailing lis

slashdot: linus says "use kde"

2005-12-13 Thread Santiago Roza
oh god... http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215 -- Santiago Roza Departamento I+D - Thymbra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list