Re: Plasma 5

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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
>

FYI, the biggest Czech server about Linux, abclinuxu.cz, is already talking
about KDE5[1], it's in the exact same sense as "KDE4" was used back in the
4.0 days.

This brings a question - are we going to call Plasma 5 only the shell
(panel+wallpaper) or the "whole experience", including applications (and a
bundle of frameworks)?

If the former, then people /will/ call it KDE5 because they will look for
some simple word to encompass that "what distributions ship", which would
be Plasma shell 5, KDE Applications whatever and KDE Frameworks 5
combination. And it's just awkward to think every. single. time about "am I
supposed to write Applications here? Or Plasma? Or...ah to hell with it,
I'll put down KDE5, people will understand".

So I'd propose to call the "experience" Plasma 5, not just the shell, which
used to be KDE Plasma Workspaces in the 4 times.

I'm also thinking we could each spend 10 minutes and email our national
biggest Linux/FOSS news servers (the serious ones, not the phoronix crap
ones) and tell them things changed and how. I bet we could cover whole EU
if everyone on this list emails their respective country servers. If they
will still get it wrong, nothing we can do...

[1] The intro paragraph -
http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/kubuntu-14.04-lts-aneb-ubuntu-s-nejnovejsim-kde-4.13

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer


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