[kde-promo] Back to basics

[Carl Symons]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Nuno Pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:
> So i have been thinking lately about, all the things I didn't do and that  I
> failed doing over this last few years, basally getting depressed.
>
> But after watching all the wonderful integration the oxygen guys did with
> interoffice style, realized that in spite of all the things we failed at we
> managed to do allot of other things really really well.
>
> And that lead me to thing that most of those are in the traditional desktop
> area... you know the basic stuf...
>
> one thing lead to another and I acoured to me that the timing is perfect for a
> release were we focus on the basic desktop, and we market it just like that a
> "back to basics" release for the big 4.10, so we would do a few litle thing
> that improve the basic desktop experience the things people use 90% of the
> time, and we market that, we market that we still care about mouse and
> keyboard interaction and what works.
>
> So I will do a new wallpaper and plasma theme with that in mind. and will blog
> about its progress and  the reasoning about it. would be fantastic if we could
> collectively all do a few little improvements with that in mind...
>
> So what do we think good idea?
>

Yes! ++good

The Quality Team did good work in this direction for 4.9. Their work
was one of the features of the release announcement.

We already have many supporters who love the beauty and the speed of
KDE. Back to the basics would be newsworthy.

Carl