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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks didrocks, great idea. If everyone else if fine with it, I'll go
ahead and get these changes done before Friday.

Cheers, Rick

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:18 +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Hacking more and more on quickly, I came to this thought: the
> description of quickly is very ubuntu-centric and we propably should
> do a more upstreamable stuff to be less ubuntu-related. (see
> description in http://launchpad.net/quickly and in README file).
> 
> Templates are there for making this seperation between the template
> and command handler (the "core", that is to say, quickly itself). In
> that direction, there is no ubuntu specific stuff in the quickly
> package itself but in the ubuntu-project template.
> 
> That's the reason why I really think we should make the quickly icon
> not linked to ubuntu nor to the description too. For instance, I have
> already some planning to do some LaTeX templates one when quickly and
> ubuntu-project template will be stable enough!
> 
> For that, in addition to removing the ubuntu description in quickly, I
> come with one icon for quickly "core" (thanks to my girlfriend)
> attached to this email. The current quickly icon can be used for the
> ubuntu-project itself (I will have a proposal soon to make it more
> complying with the previous one).
> For small icons, the second proposal with a "fullfilled Q".
> The ultimate seperation will be to make two project: one for quickly
> and one for quickly ubuntu-project template (dividing the bzr branch),
> but not before 0.2 release. Thoughts?
> 
> Notice that we can still refer to the ubuntu-project template as an
> example in the quickly description. Just separate the two worlds to
> make more people using it and creating templates, even for non
> programmatic stuff (corporate documentation template with some
> commands to push it to a shared directory for instance).
> 
> No related to that, I created a release 0.x where 0.1 is the first
> milestone. I named it "the quickly quest". Having a name containing a
> name or adjective starting with "qu" for each release can be fun,
> isn't?
> 
> Didier
> 
> PS: of course, the icon is made of real quickly code :)
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