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[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday 09 November 2009 20:09:21 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > Sure, but I think that's up to Nokia (not even the maemo community,
> afaik).
> > So if Nokia decides to trust KDE by introducing our software in their
> >  systems KDE will be able to get involved into maemo. Until that happens
> >  it's just about choosing who to hack for. I'm not sure what you mean by
> >  push KDE into maemo since I think it's been working there for some time
> >  already, never tried that though.
>
> I don't think Nokia needs to decide to trust KDE into their systems, it's
> the user
> who does that by installing KDE software he finds attractive, made
> available through
> repositories. This is how Linux distributions, and also Maemo works, and
> this "you
> can install whatever you deem right" is one very interesting aspect of the
> Maemo
> platform (and quite different from other mobile platforms, such as the
> iPhone).
>
> If you want to make it part of the default installation, that's a different
> thing
> altogether, and indeed in Nokia's hands. To get there, you will have to go
> through
> community-support and show that your stuff is worthwhile and has users.
>
> Those things don't happen just by itself.
> --
> sebas
>
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It's a matter of thresholds. The regular user is not going to install such a
big package and definitely won't want to have to configure it. It's true we
can push it but pushing it doesn't mean that's going to make it attractive.
To show an example, it's something that happens quite a lot in kde-win,
people have to download and follow so much steps that make it not seem
worth. Nobody wants to install 200Mb for Kate or KBounce. But indeeed, we
can help lower barriers in any case.

In any case, Maemo is not just another linux distro, since it's freedom is
kind of linked to the device, afaik.

BTW, maemo is going to ship some KOffice stuff I read at some point. Is this
a stripped-down version or KDE free libraries? Otherwise we would already
have some stuff in there.

Thanks,
Aleix
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