RFC: Calligra press kit

Inge Wallin inge at lysator.liu.se
Thu Dec 8 17:49:05 GMT 2011


On Thursday, December 08, 2011 15:29:17 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > I'm not in the least interested in fine semantic distinctions and will
> > continue using KDE5 as a convenient shorthand for the version of the
> > libraries that are compatible with Qt5 and that are incompatible with our
> > current source code,
> 
> In which universe is "KDE5" shorter than KF5?
> 
> > irregardless for the version of number of the desktop
> > that links to those libraries.
> 
> Other people reading the term "KDE5" may think of version 5 of the desktop.
> 
> But what you're saying is that the whole press kit document is just for
> waste because "semantic distinctions" between Calligra, Calligra Suite,
> and Calligra Engine don't matter anyway.
> Thanks for telling me that my work I put into that document was just waste
> of time.........

I agree with you that we should be stringent when we talk about it.  
Unfortunately it's a fact of life that many people will continue to talk about 
'KDE' when they mean the desktop or even the full collection of software.

And I don't think that just because boud doesn't want to make the distinction 
that everybody thinks your work is for nothing. :)



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