Plasma Media Center Branding

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On July 15, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> Also adding plasma-devel to the CC
> 
> 2010/7/15 Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > (copying in Alessandro as he can probably answer the next question)
> > 
> > Is Plasma Media Center going to be a workspace or an app that runs in
> > another
> > workspace?
> > 
> > If it's the latter then we'd better give some serious thought to the
> > branding:
> > Plasma is the brand for our workspaces and things can get confusing if
> > we break with that.
> > 
> > KDE's product groups:
> > Libs -> KDE Platform
> > Workspaces -> Plasma Desktop, Plasma Netbook, Plasma Mobile
> > Apps -> Many names, but not Plasma something
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stu
> 
> Hey Stu, first of all thanks for the point which is really important.
> Actually, Plasma Media Center is intended as a stand-alone application
> and its development is going into this direction. The fact that we call
> it Plasma Media Center is due to the use of the Plasma technologies to
> develop it. So, probably, your point is valid and we should start
> thinkin' about a proper name for it.
> I'd like some other Plasma-devs to give their opinion on this.
> 
> Cheers

I've been interested in Plasma Media Center for quite some time now. And I 
think it makes the most sense to be a workspace app like plasma-desktop. 
Though it would make even more sense to take over some minimal window 
manager duties too, or at least integrate somewhat with kwin. That way if 
other applications are launched they don't take completely over, like if you 
wanted to start firefox or rekonq to view some web site on your TV, getting 
back to the media center interface isn't a struggle if you only have a 
remote control. Kinda like how the plasma mobile and plasma phone interfaces 
change how things work, the plasma media center probably should too.

At least thats my $0.02

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at shaw.ca