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Re: More openmindedness!
by Henrique Pinto on Friday 05/Nov/2004, @13:53

Not really. The article is interesting, but it would be better if it was published at another site. It really makes no sense to have an article like this in a site whose intent is to bring news about KDE.

Well, perhaps the dot just wants to be a "general" IT site. That would be a loss, since we'd be loosing the best source for news about KDE ever. I really hope not to see more nonsense like this on the dot again...

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Re: More openmindedness!
by Frans Englich on Saturday 06/Nov/2004, @05:58

No, this is no attempt from the Dot editors to become a general IT site. I neither see how that would be achieved by once in a while, posting an interview with content related to KDE but not about KDE. We don't remove KDE news, we just invite "guest speakers" now and then.

The reason why we found the Guest Series a good idea, was it is a possibility of introducing new thoughts to the KDE community. Now and then, a quick slip of different air than "KDE gets feature X! We rock!". However, if many expresses that they don't want to hear about anything else than purely about-KDE, or that it overshadows the other news, we'll of course skip it.

Cheers,
Frans

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Re: More openmindedness!
by mrdocs on Saturday 06/Nov/2004, @06:53

No, I think its a great addition.. Keep up the good work.

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Re: More openmindedness!
by Henrique Pinto on Saturday 06/Nov/2004, @07:39

Hi Frans!

Obviously there are doubts about whether an interview with Gnome developers to promote Gnome apps fits in the dot. The concerns are not only mine. This interview is currently being discussed at the kde-promo mailinglist, where many people have expressed their dissatisfaction with it (including Aaron Seigo, Scott Wheeler, Rob Kaper and Jason Keirstead). If you haven't yet, you should really take a look at the thread (you'll find it easily if you search for "What is the goal of dot.kde.org?").

Please not that I have no problem with the interview itself, it was actually a nice reading, but I still think it should have been posted elsewhere. Next time you have such an interview, please consider posting it to FootNotes. It is surely much better suited there.

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Re: More openmindedness!
by annma on Saturday 06/Nov/2004, @09:53

Hi Henrique,

When you create a svg icon (which is KDE requirement for maintained apps in KDE modules), what tool do you use please?

Anne-Marie

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Re: More openmindedness!
by Boudewijn on Saturday 06/Nov/2004, @09:57

Bigotry. I think it's admirable to be able to look around and see the rest of the world, determine what's good and what you can learn from. The interview was more a prepared questionnaire than a real interview, and I'm heartily sick of that type of interview, but despite that, it was an interesting read. Maybe the next installment can be a _real_ interview with questions provoked by answers and some deep digging.

The fact that some people discuss it on some mailing list is utterly irrelevant. The dot editors were fortunately independent-minded enough to accept it.

To suggest that it should stay in a ghetto of its own colour, but that you don't have 'a problem' with it it, is... Polite words fail me. It's bigotry. Narrow-mindedness. Parochialism.

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Re: More openmindedness!
by Scott Wheeler on Sunday 07/Nov/2004, @08:06

Not really. I don't have any problems with this sort of interview. I'll even read them when they happen to pique my interest. It's just a question of when and if they belong on a KDE news site.

The question isn't "Do you like this application?" "Do you find this application useful?" or "Do you find this interview interesting?" -- rather they're "What is the dot here for?" and "Does this sort of interview fit in with that?"

I mean -- surely we'd think hardware reviews were off topic here? What about a review of Microsoft office? There's a limit somewhere, some of us simply believe that on KDE's news site the information should have some fairly direct relevance to KDE.

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by ac on Sunday 07/Nov/2004, @09:34

"What is the dot here for?"

On this web site you can post or read about all things KDE including new developments, applications and breakthroughs, announcements, feature articles, interviews, events and more.

"Does this sort of interview fit in with that?"

This is the official start of the Dot's Guest Series, which will house articles and interviews relevant and interesting to the KDE community, but not necessarily about KDE. The previous article, despite its sneaky start, was Pete Gordon on Portable Usability Laboratories.

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