[kde-community] Give People Access to Great Technology - a possible vision

Stuart Jarvis jarvis at kde.org
Tue Sep 23 18:31:52 BST 2014


On Tuesday 23 September 2014 18:44:07 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2014 16:06:36 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > > What’s making this more
> > > confusing is that the VDG are now discussing branding some apps along
> > > the lines of ‘Made for…’
> > 
> > I'd be very concerned about this, for any but the most basic components
> > deeply entwined in the desktop shell (e..g things like knetworkmanager
> > etc). The 'by KDE' tagline used for Plasma surely works much better for
> > anything else.
> 
> Just to clear things up: "Made for Plasma" was just one idea of many for the
> name of this, which, because we're all aware of the implications, is
> unlikely to be chosen in the end.
> We still have not found a good name yet (the problem with "by KDE" is that
> it would naturally apply to all KDE applications, but what we're looking
> for is a name we'd only give to applications that fulfill certain criteria
> on top of being made by KDE).
> See the forum thread [1] for background and the current discussion.
> Input is still very much appreciated, as we're still kind of at a loss for a
> good name.

Great, thanks for the clarification and the link. I'll give it some thought 
too.

Cheers,
Stu

> [1] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=122926
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