[Simplekde-developers] some thoughts

[Aaron J. S. <as...@kd...>]

hello everyone ....

i was recently pointed to your website and wanted to provide some input and=
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ask a couple of questions.

first, Plasma is *not* Appeal. Appeal is still going full steam ahead at th=
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moment (had another meeting last month, things are Happening), while Plasma=
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is a separate entity (http://plasma.bddf.ca)

second, KDE is a trademarked name, and following social standards within th=
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open source world, creating a _fork_ using that same name is highly frowned=
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upon. at the very least, you may wish to request permission to use the name=
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"KDE" as your use of it for your project may not be desirable from the KDE=
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project's perspective.

i'm also interested in how you intend to triage improvements made in your=20
project upstream to KDE, and pull improvements from KDE into your project; =
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that is the intention at all.

personally, i think it would be in everyone's best interests if rather than=
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huge fork was made, the "simplekde" team focussed on certain aspects of KDE=
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and fed improvements there. i just really don't see "simplekde" keeping up=
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with the mainline project, for one, and it would be nice to see optimizatio=
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and what not fed back into KDE itself.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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