Re: Plasma 5

On Friday, May 09, 2014 08:54:29 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2014 21:10:46 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > Hi kde-promo,
> >
> > 
> >
> > Within the Plasma team, many of us would like to go forward using version
> > 5
> > for our upcoming release ("Plasma 5"). We'd like to propose it to be taken
> > forward. (The version "in the code" is already at 5, anyway.)
> 
> For the reasons given by Jos [1] and John [2] in the plasma-devel thread, I 
> think Plasma 2 is the better solution (better than the date numbering
> system too, though I didn't mind that too much). Plasma 5 will
> become/continue to be KDE 5 - I don't think there's anything much we'll be
> able to do to prevent that.

I've come to think that we have two kinds of groups:

- "Old Farts", they reject change, anyway, and they won't be budged to not 
  call it KDE 5, they will get confusing reactions to that, but won't really 
  care, except perhaps bitch more about versions

- Relatively new users, to whom the version numbering makes sense, they'll 
  call it Plasma 5, and it will be fine

- People who don't know, don't care: We can be way happy if they remember the 
  name Plasma, and that's really the whole point

At some point, I stopped caring about people calling it KDE 4. I think we can 
make a difference there by deeds, not so much words, and in that regard, the 
version numbering seems logical and successive.

> Not much else to say, really, except that I'll do my best to work with the 
> Plasma 5 branding if that's the decision.

Thanks for that. I know we won't get to have everybody happy, but it seems 
that the majority finds Plasma 5 the best option, or at least can work with 
it.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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