Hi all, 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?* Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
