<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> Should we extend the deadline?<br>> <br>> I see two reasons for doing so:<br>> - to allow current contestants to finish their themes (primary reason)<br>> - to receive a couple more themes<br></div><br>Full disclosure: I have 2 themes entered in the contest.<br><br>It appears that the current deadline might be performing its
function well enough (another surprisingly complete theme just got posted this morning). That said, I don't think it would be too much of a big deal to extend the deadline no further than to the weekend. However, if we do, it might be worthwhile holding to original the deadline for announcing contest winners.<br><br>We should probably try to pin down a measure of finish-ness that might help decide on whether it is even necessary to extend the deadline. I offer that if the theme covers elements of plasma with which the user is expected to interact (out of necessity or frequent choice - we NEED plasma use cases), then the theme is sufficently complete w.r.t. the deadline. I think these elements are panel, dialog, tooltip, widget background, clock. Obviously the more complete the better, but that's a judgment issue not a deadline-extension issue.<br><br>My opinion (and hope) is that the most promising themes will probably meet
the above criteria in time for the current deadline. I have my eye on one that I really hope makes it. For a little perspective, before the contest was even suggested there were about 3 or 4 themes on kde-look. Now there are 17 themes. Granted, they don't suit everyone's taste, but if the contest accomplished nothing else, I'd be pretty happy that this much was produced in just a little over two weeks. AND they're only a GHNS click away!<br><br>peace and respect,<br>Andrew<br><br></div></div></body></html>