K-ARTIST: Quality Team and KDE Artists: hello and a Kontact issue

[Ante Wessels]

On Jueves 01 Abril 2004 01:30, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 20:58, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a long due e-mail. Please include both lists (kde-quality and
> > kde-artists) in your reply.
> >
> > The quality team main goal is to assist new volunteers, making easy to
> > help KDE. Also, we recommend focusing on applications / modules, as the
> > main tool to help an application is to know it well.
> >
> > You guys have been posting a lot of very nice guides / howto on the wiki.
>
> Yes, Ante has done quite some work there.
>
> > They are very complete and high quality, and I would like your permission
> > review them and post them to quality.kde.org (in the HOWTO section). He
> > have already a documentation, programming, promotion, media and bug
> > management howto, so why not an artwork howto...
> >
> > Second, I would like to invite you to use the kde-quality list for any
> > support or test you need.
> >
> > Third, I would like to establish a channel to communicate the ideas /
> > shortcomings / bugs in the artwork of KDE applications we cover. For
> > instance, among the list of stuff to do for Kontact 3.3, there is some
> > discussion about the icons and the splash screen. Posting on kde-look to
> > ask for artwork has been suggested, but I feel it is more polite to ask
> > your opinion on how to proceed first :)

The central place for discussion is the artist mailing list. I guess we should 
keep it that way. On the other hand, getting the artists at kde-look more 
involved is a good idea. 

> >
> > Do we set up a page for this? Do we ask in kde-look.org for submissions?
>
> Actually, I think the icon front is pretty well covered up in this area. If
> you read the archives you will see that administration work have been done
> the last months for achieving the same thing the quality team project
> does(building a base for development - getting people together,
> documenting).
>
> I would say KDE's artist community is a little thin on people and splitting
> it up on another list would counteract our recent changes.
>
> But it could eventually be a good idea to collect the docs in one place.
> Let's hear what Ante has to say.

No problem! It is good to have docs in one place. The idea of the wiki came up 
since the former icon guide was pretty backdated. No one worked on it, you 
need an account, stuff like that, I thought a wiki would be more easy to 
update.

The icon guide has information that is pretty stable - how to make an icon - 
and information that is changing more often - software, references, 
snapshots, locations of sources. It may be good to split the icon guide in 
more permanent and more fluid information. 

It is ok to post them in quality.kde.org (you are entitled anyway, they are 
under the fdl :-) .  I think it is a good idea to make a link to the wiki 
too, with mention of something like: "  For the latest information take a 
look at the wiki, much is updated more frequently. " The guide at 
quality.kde.org can than follow the major changes, if any, of the wiki. 

You can choose to grab the whole icon guide or leave the more fluid info for 
the wiki.

Cordialemente,

Ante



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