Oxygen Commit-digest write up

Tue Dec 28 22:50:24 CET 2010

The Planet and Digest have slightly different audiences I would think. I
pretty much split "readers" up into those who just want to use something and
don't care at all what's happening as long s they know when something new is
out. They would probably read the Dot or just KDE's front page news. You
have "most people" who use FOSS that care about the applications but also
somewhat as to the process. They will read the planet which normally goes
over a problem and what the solution is but rarely touches on technical
details much. A more technical person who may not want to get mired down in
the humdrum of most code will likely want more detailed regular information
about how the code changes affect things and what they are. They will likely
read the Commit Digest. (As a side note. For these people things like the
structure of the various modules in KDE and how they relate to each other
may be useful information ) Then you have people deeply invested in the code
and progression of KDE and they will likely be on the mailing lists or
looking at raw commits.

If you can see that a writeup on the Planet has gathered interest it may be
worth it to do a followup a few weeks later with more detailed information
about how the application fits overall into the KDE ecosystem with more
technical wirting on the challenges it's just overcome or is facing. The
extra detail will probably be welcome. If there isn't much more technical
aspects to write about then that's fine the planet has already done it's
job. There are plenty of things in KDE to write about.

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Alexander van Loon <
a.vanloon at alexandervanloon.nl> wrote:

> I feel I still need more time to get acquainted with the commits
> activity to get a feeling of what’s being worked on and what’s worthy
> material for a write up before I’d apply to be chief editor. And even
> then I’m thinking to far ahead because all I have done so far is
> reviewing and classifying, I should get down to writing something.
>
> Maybe I’m a bit perfectionist, but I think it’s difficult not to overlap
> with Planet KDE in this regard. After seeing all the commits for Muon
> for example I considered contacting Jonathan Thomas, but he already beat
> me to it by writing about the changes on his blog –
> http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/ – so that it’s no longer suitable
> for the Commit Digest.
>
> Back on topic, only if no one more experienced is available for the role
> of editor in chief, I’d be willing to do the job.
>
> On do, 2010-12-23 at 09:45 +0000, Danny Allen wrote:
> > Well, I really want (and need!) to transition out of the chief editor
> role... i'm fine with maintaining adding features to Enzyme, but I didn't
> restart this in order for it to take up all my free time like it used to! :)
> >
> > So I need to find a good candidate (or group of people) to take this
> over, preferably before the end of January.
> > That person is likely to come from this list, so let me know if you're
> interested.
> >
> > Danny
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger Pixley" <skreech2 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Danny Allen" <danny at commit-digest.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, 23 December, 2010 3:44:11 AM
> > Subject: Re: Oxygen Commit-digest write up
> >
> > Thanks :) would be great if we could have some group of people appointed
> to be able to put up a digest even if you are on vacation or a slow boat to
> china
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Danny Allen < danny at commit-digest.org >
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Roger,
> > That's great!
> > Any content you can get right now would be useful (haven't heard from
> anyone else yet!)
> >
> > I'll be working on the editor interface of Enzyme next to hopefully solve
> this issue.
> >
> > Danny
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger Pixley" < skreech2 at gmail.com >
> > To: "digest" < digest at kde.org >
> > Sent: Wednesday, 22 December, 2010 5:11:25 AM
> > Subject: Oxygen Commit-digest write up
> >
> >
> > Sorry about this I started getting it last week Tuesday for last week
> Sunday but it just came in. Going to try and get a writeup from the Solid
> team for this week
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Should we add in something about the new Wallpaper and look for KDE 4.6?
> >
> >
> > Roger Pixley.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Hugo Pereira Da Costa < hugo.pereira at free.fr >
> >
> > As promised, some lines about oxygen for KDE's commit digest. Since I'm
> not
> > 100% sure of what's usually written, feel free to edit, comment, and do
> > whatever you want with it.
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Hugo
> >
> > PS: sorry for the delay (got sidetracked).
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > Oxygen is at the heart of KDE's look and feel since day one of the 4.0
> > version, for icons, sounds, application's appearance (widget style) and
> window
> > decoration. The widget style and window decoration notably have evolved a
> lot
> > since the beginning, their design becoming more polished, professional
> and
> > attractive, and more features being added, such as support for window
> > grouping, smooth animations for practically every interaction between the
> user
> > and an application or the possibility to move windows from any of its
> empty
> > area. They also have become more configurable, while keeping a simple
> interface
> > to the user and a satisfying set of default settings.
> >
> > Since KDE 4.5, the style and decoration have become rather stable both
> design-
> > wise and feature-wise, judging notably from the small number of bug
> reports
> > related to either of these two components. So we decided to move one step
> > further and develop an official KDE port of the oxygen style to the other
> widely
> > used widget toolkit: gtk. It is named oxygen-gtk, is hosted in the brand
> new
> > KDE git repository, and originates from one of active developer of the QT
> > version of the style (me!).
> >
> > This project aims to provide users with seamless integration of a large
> number
> > of non-KDE applications into KDE, such as Gimp, Inkscape, and even
> Firefox.
> >
> > The very first version of this new theme has been released few weeks ago
> and
> > reactions so far have been very positive. We expect distributions to
> start
> > packaging the code after the first bug-fixing cycle is finished.
> >
> > There is a lot of activity going on to fix bugs present in this first
> release
> > and reported by users, and to add more features so that both versions of
> the
> > style (QT/KDE and GTK) ultimately match perfectly. This results in tenth
> of
> > changes pushed to the repository daily. Already today, this project is
> likely
> > the best matching GTK port of the KDE's Oxygen widget style. Being
> developed
> > (and hosted) by the KDE community guaranties high quality of the code,
> long
> > term support as well as fast response to user's demands. Oh, and its a
> lot of
> > fun to code into !
> >
> >
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