Windows Desktop Bridge sounds like part of MS' route to the cloud, for Windows. It won't be a choice for Windows users, in the future. But that's a whole other topic.
I wouldn't mind if Inkscape was available in the Windows store, as long as it's still available for free.
I don't clearly understand why you're suggesting users pay a fee. Certainly I wouldn't want Inkscape to provide income for MS. Even if Inkscape can be offered in the Windows store for free, now, who's to say down the road, if MS decides to "take a cut" for the privilege of being in the store.
If it's a donation to the Inkscape project, that's a different story. Better yet a "suggested donation".
But still, if users can still get Inkscape for free on the Inkscape website, why should they pay for it somewhere else? I'm not following your logic for charging a fee.
All best, brynn
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:24 PM To: Marc Jeanmougin ; Inkscape Devel List ; dwashin@...3499... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Offer to help put inkscape on windows store
Thanks Mc,
This is very interesting.
I'd actually be interested in asking for a price per install. Everyone thinks that Inkscape is 'for free', but actually it's more important that's it's Free Software.
Say if the price for inkscape is $10 on the windows store. Windows is our biggest market, there's an opportunity there even if most people forgo the store and download from us directly.
Thoughts?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 00:30 +0200, Marc Jeanmougin wrote:
Hi all,
I recently discussed on IRC with dwcares from Miscrosoft who wants to help us simplify precesses on windows.
Here is his email:
=== David Washington from Microsoft here. Earlier this afternoon I had conversation with Marc about potentially publishing the Inkscape app to the Windows Store, the app store for Windows 10 PCs.
The Windows Store now supports publishing Win32 Desktop apps with little or no code change using the Windows Desktop Bridge. Taking advantage of the Windows Desktop Bridge and Distributing through the Windows Store also provides simplified options for automated updates, easy install and uninstall, and provides a new distribution path for folks who may have not found Inkscape before.
Our team has identified Inkscape as a top desktop app that we’d love to see in the Windows Store. Given this we have some resources to help with the process of getting this ported using the Windows Desktop Bridge and published to the Windows Store. The process itself is lightweight, and our team is equipped help walk you through getting it ported and published. We’ve done some early investigation on the Inkscape binaries and we haven’t identified any issues getting it published.
If this is something that seems interesting to you, we can get together on the phone and talk through the details for the next steps of getting this published. If you’d rather make progress in email/IRC, we’re happy to accommodate what works for your team. We’re prepared to work with you on getting this published as early as next week.
I look forward to working together. I’ve included some folks from my team who will be helping you.
Thanks much, David Washington Microsoft | Developer Experience | 206-605-2062 ===
Eduard, Nicolas or Partha, iirc you're the ones doing stuff on windows, could you take it from here if it seems interesting ?
Thanks,
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