Re: Handling 4.12

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <5790051.DzTSSN9cPB__34455.9151366868$1377294360$gmane$org@xps>
El Dijous, 22 d'agost de 2013, a les 15:54:52, Tomaz Canabrava va escriure:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Martin Klapetek
> 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi there.
> >> I have a few proposals for 4.12 (probably obvious to most but AFAIK never
> >> officially discussed):
> >> 
> >> 1) Even though it wasn't originally meant to be a brand name, "Software
> >> Compilation" somewhat stuck, therefore I suggest we give "KDE
> >> Applications"
> >> (with capital A) the boot and use "Software Compilation" as brand name
> >> for the
> >> application bundle (de facto already the case with the blog posts
> >> announcing
> >> the 4.12 release schedule).
> > 
> > I think that's not too good idea, the naming has been changed many times
> > already (all that rebranding) and I think one more change will be just too
> > much. There are so many news sites that still don't get the current naming
> > properly, I don't think another change will help it, but rather bring in
> > more confusion.
> 
> To non Techs, 'compilation' means nothing.

What? You never bought a compilation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilation_album

The term is pretty well stablished as "putting stuff together", actually the 
"tech" meaning of "doing what the compiler does" doesn't really apply to KDE 
SC.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > Cheers
> > --
> > Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
> > 
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