Rethinking https://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 1 de juliol de 2015, a les 16:14:12, Andrej Mernik va escriure:
> Dne 30. 06. 2015 ob 13:31 je R33D3M33R zapisal(a):
> > Dne 30. 06. 2015 ob 13:10 je Ben Cooksley zapisal(a):
> >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> That page has a problem:
> >> Hi Albert,
> >> 
> >>>   * It lists kdelibs when it should list Plasma 5, KDE Frameworks
> >>> 
> >>> and KDE
> >>> Applications versions
> >>> 
> >>> The problem is that knowing that for each distro is A LOT OF WORK,
> >>> previously
> >>> we could piggy-back on DistroWatch to read kdelibs code but
> >>> DistroWatch is not
> >>> having the 3 versions for the three things we need.
> >>> 
> >>> One possibility is just killing the page.
> >>> 
> >>> Anyone remembers what was the original rationale for having that list?
> >> 
> >> Was probably so people could find a distro with KDE, back in the day.
> >> These days so many distros carry our software that i'm not sure it has
> >> any worth anymore.
> >> 
> >> I'd be in favour of killing it, pointing people to a list of
> >> distributions which carry KDE software (not stating versions) on the
> >> wiki (so people / packagers / distributors can self-maintain it).
> >> 
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> 
> >>>    Albert
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ben
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think this page should list only popular distributions which ship
> > with Plasma Desktop as default DE. This way new users could get their
> > hands on most polished KDE experience and the list would be shorter
> > and easier to maintain.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Andrej
> 
> Hello,
> 
> so I did a small analysis of
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions and found
> around 30 distributions using Plasma Desktop as primary DE. I filtered
> the list for unmaintained distros and have chosen five of them that are
> probably the most popular and thus offer best KDE experience. I also
> included example links which can be directly scraped for package
> versions (PCLinuxOS website doesn't seem to have a package search feature)
> 
> OpenSuse | https://software.opensuse.org/package/plasma5-desktop
> Mageia | http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/name/plasma-desktop
> PcLinuxOS | http://www.pclinuxos.com/get-pclinuxos/kde/
> Kubuntu | http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/plasma-desktop
> Gentoo | https://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop
> 
> I also want to offer my programming skills to implement the
> functionality ... :)

Thanks for offering your programming skills but we don't need them for this, 
let's just make distributions fill their data.

On the other hand we're trying to find someone to give 
https://www.kde.org/events/ a look&feel more similar to https://www.kde.org/ 
(at least have some of the top-level menus, etc), do you feel like trying?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
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