The (unknown) KDE-Platform-independent libraries

[John Layt]

On 5 April 2013 10:12, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Martin Sandsmark
> <martin.sandsmark at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:13:01PM +0200, David Gil Oliva wrote:
> >> I think that the fact that developers don't use KDE-Platform-independent
> >> libraries won't cease until something is done about the texts of these
> >> packages.
> >
> > We don't control those texts, those are written by the Ubuntu packagers
> (and
> > wikipedia contributors).
>
> David has a point though. And I think it'd be great if we could get
> some help from him in contacting the people who can change them.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>

The question for me is how many developers would be looking at those as a
source of information when they go looking for a library to use?  I agree
we should make the effort to have them more accurate in their descriptions,
but I think that's only a small part of the effort required.  Things like
Qt Dev Days, Qt Centre, and Cornelius' inqlude will be better primary
targets I feel.  Perhaps it's a topic for QtCS to discuss setting up as
part of the qt-project.org website a directory of Qt add-on libraries.

One of the biggest issues we will have to overcome is the whole K-name
problem where people see it and assume that means it's KDE-only and/or
bloated.  We'll probably need to develop a consistent marketing and
branding strategy that emphasises the stand-alone nature of each library in
Frameworks.  Obviously renaming everything is out-of-the question, but
we'll need to find a way to describe them that gets the message across,
e.g. "KArchive, a Qt Add-on by KDE".

Cheers!

John.
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