(Re)Marketing of "artistic" application (Was: Re: whither krita -- summary)

[Thomas Zander]

On Thursday 24. September 2009 16.37.38 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> Moving to koffice-devel, since it's of more broder interest, I think.

> > We have seen some very good arguments with which we might try to 
convince
> > artists to put aside prejudices or maybe even practical problems, but we
> >  need to get them to listen first. And even then, they might not be
> >  convinced, which means the contradiction still exists.
> >
> > And, yes, the arguments are good, but they are arguments that justify a
> > "weird" situation -- if the situation weren't anonomalous, no arguments
> >  would be needed. "Why is Krita part of KOffice instead of standalone" is
> > a question of a different kind than "Why is Krita not written in my
> > favourite toolkit", where the second question is trollish, the first one
> > isn't.

I have not seen the evidence you must be thinking off, and I have seen plenty 
of evidence to the contrary. I have spoken with plenty of painters that like 
krita for just krita. Many really don't care its part of KOffice.
So, your assertion in answering seems wrong. You assert that people need to be 
convinced to ignore KOffice.  Look at the search terms in the stats on 
koffice.org, look at the amount of times people go to krita. Look at the sites 
that link to us that call us in one breath with Photoshop, gimp etc.
I think its fighting windmills for a large part since there is a great market 
out there. I won't deny there are people that likely say krita is not on their 
radar, naturally.
So what about focusing on getting enthusiastic users out of the group that 
like krita for what it is. Thats your stepping stone to getting more artists 
and soon you've conquered the world :)

> So the question is how to make it more clear, that the applications are
> independent from one other ? That using the suite will just give an even
> better user experience (a bit like use kapplications in a KDE environment
> gives a better user experience, while it is still possible to use
> kapplications on a different platform)

Keep repeating that in forums, slashdot, blogs etc.
Its a bad meme we have to kill.  Counter it with the correct meme in any way 
you can.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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