Re: Do we release SC or not?
Bart Otten <[email protected]>
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2010/9/2 Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> > On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 20:27:59 Troy Unrau wrote: > > So yes, it is ridiculous, but it was due to us failing to clearly > > communicate that SC was not supposed to be a drop in term for KDE - > > but that we were trying to set ourselves up as a group (KDE) that > > creates products (The Development Platform, Plasma Desktop, Plasma > > Netbook, KStars, etc...) > > Actually, no. It's a shortcoming of our terminology. It's simply not very > practical to replace "KDE 4.x.y" with "Plasma, Apps, Platform 4.5.1", since > that's way too long and steals space necessary for *important* info. It > also > leads to it being replicated by the press as "KDE 4.5.1 Released" -> back > to > square one. > > Everything I've heard until now (and that includes the whole "SC" idea) > sounds > just clumsy and doesn't feel practical. It's doable in paragraphs of text, > but > it's pretty much impractical for producing headlines. > > It works well if we're talking about specific products ("Plasma 4.5.1's > Notification Area Kicks Some Serious Ass", but it's a real pain for our SC > releases. (And worse, there are plans floating around for KOffice and > Amarok > to join the dance. "KDE releases KOffice, Amarok, Plasma Desktop & Netbook, > other Applications and Platform" (wordy-wordy, no content as to *what* is > significant about the release...). > > (We all know that I'm not opposed to the re-branding, but it *does* annoy > the > shit out of me, because it's really hard to implement properly. And it > annoys > me even more that after _months_ of trying, I'm still not comfortable with > the > whole thing and regularly fail at writing proper announcements. > -- > sebas > > +1 for Sebas. I translate for KDE.nl and it is really hard to keep up with all this. I understand the rebranding. KDE is a community and we produce software. I think we really should think from a user point of view. I will think a bit more how we can make this going the right way. Have to read some old blogs about the SC-happening. Regards, Bart _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.