[kde-community] Give People Access to Great Technology - a possible vision

[David Wright]

I wonder whether going forward we would be better served by asking the
question of our users, 'What do you need KDE* to be for you?'

Because essentially we are saying that with plasma 5 and kf5 it could be
anything you want it to be.

Maybe we should start by splitting this into commercial and consumer needs
and take it from there. I know from my company that KDE would suit us as
KDE for Windows would allow us to slowly shift over desktop apps first,
before swapping out the  o/s from underneath. We can't be the only company
in a similar boat.

*By KDE here im referring to the software, as I'm not sure what the term is
for the amalgamation of plasma 5 / kf5 & applications

Ps. Typing this on my phone in a tent in Wales, UK, so sorry if it reads a
bit disjointed.
On 20 Sep 2014 22:00, "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, September 20, 2014 10.15:56 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Friday 19 September 2014 19:04:53 Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Lake <jamboarder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Image: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/19/A_possible_vision.png
> > >
> > > I would say "Plasma and Frameworks at the center."
> >
> > I think it's right to put the KDE desktop in the center in addition to
> the
> > KDE frameworks. It's Plasma and the application which are our base and
> > where we are coming from. It's this whole set which gives us the
> > integration points we can use to expand to cloud, to devices, to other
> > services. The desktop is a great starting point.
>
> Plasma was intended as a way to move beyond the "desktop" while retaining
> the
> "desktop" as a first class citizen, so that paragraph contains some irony.
>
> I use "desktop" in quotation marks because the end-user computing tasks
> performed on laptops and desktop computers have been moving to
> non-"desktop"
> form factors for some years now while the "desktop" type hardware has been
> slowly adopting some hardware characteristics of non-"desktop" devices.
> Fixating on "the desktop" is to bury one's head in the sand about that
> reality.
>
> Finally, the desktop has always been the primary focus. It has never not
> been
> the starting point. (Despite Plasma's goals.)
>
> This vision sounds like it comes from KDE circa 2005. Perhaps that's the
> goal,
> since as Andrew wrote, "These thoughts are not intended to suggest an
> entirely
> new direction." However, this leaves me slightly stumped as to what the
> goal
> is here.
>
> Is it to remind KDE what it is, because that's been forgotten?
> Is it to reaffirm what KDE is as a means to pull back into its own center?
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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