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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Agreed! I love it when developers include extra little features like this.
Ark is both by and for the KDE community. It was written by a KDE community member, and many KDE community members use it.
It's the same turn of phrase I would use were I to say "I have a great video editor *for* open source users." The video editor I am referring to also happens to be *by* open source users (who are developers).
I tend to use "on" only when referring to the Plasma Desktop. For instance, I might write "you can use Ark on the KDE Plasma Desktop, as well as on GNOME."
The more I read about technology, the more I realise there are subtleties around prepositions. I wonder if they're regional. For instance, in New York you stand "on line" when you're in a queue, but everywhere else I've ever lived in the US, you stand "in line."
I try to strike a balance in how I refer to KDE as the community and as a descriptor of specific technology, and whether applications are for, by, on, in, under, on top of, or behind.