Re: Plasma 5
Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > I think there's space for a bigger Plasma concept. So far the problem I see is that there's far too many things called Plasma and it gets confusing. Coming up what's a full Plasma experience would be very interesting though. It will help all of us to better communicate Plasma Next. Aleix _______________________________________________ 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.