[RFC] Invite Razor-Qt to next Workspaces Sprint

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, February 16, 2013 16:54:03 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> I want to suggest that we invite Razor-Qt developers to our next Workspaces 
> Sprint in Nuremberg.
> 
> *Why?*
> At FOSDEM there was a presentation about Razor-Qt and I attended it
> together  with many other KDE developers. For me the most important
> information I took out of that talk was that Razor-Qt is not in competition
> with us, but an addendum to our offerings.
> 
> Razor-Qt started from the assumption that there is no "lightweight" desktop 
> environment based on Qt. This is actually the case - I wouldn't call KDE
> Plasma lightweight. And they aim for a userbase who don't want to use KDE
> Plasma (for whatever reasons, whether valid or not does not matter).
> 
> Overall Razor-Qt seems to be rather open to use KDE technologies. What I 
> noticed during the talk:
> * strong usage of Plasma themes
> * Oxygen Widget Style
> * KWin (though the recommendation seems to be openbox)
> 
> I see here lots of possibilities for collaboration and to ensure that razor 
> does not move into a direction that it would become a competition (valid
> question: how to prevent feature creep?) but also that we help the razor
> devs to not re-invent the wheel and use our frameworks (from the talk it
> seems that they are afraid of using K-technology).
> 
> Overall to me razor looks like what a Kicker/KDesktop port to Qt4 would
> have  looked like and it's nothing like Trinity. It's a modern approach,
> clean code and looking to the future (talk mentioned Qt5 and Wayland). Also
> I had made very positive experiences on discussing the usage of KWin on
> razor.
> 
> *Evil white cat petting master plan*
> Personally I would like to get razor on the long road into the KDE
> community.  I would love to see razor being hosted on our infrastructure
> and would love to see it as an alternative shell to Plasma offered by the
> KDE community. That is whenever a user complains about Plasma we can
> suggest them to use razor. And I think we all (razor and KDE) would truly
> benefit from that.
> 
> *Comments?*

All good points. From my side, they're totally welcome. (I'd need to know in 
time in order to make space for them during the sprint.) Are you in contact 
with the developers already? Maybe in that case, you could ask if they're 
interested?
-- 
sebas

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