"kde5" or "kf5" ?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Feb 18 19:37:20 UTC 2013


On Monday 18 February 2013, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2013 18:04:24 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 February 2013, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 February 2013, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, February 16, 2013 18:41:34 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > > > There is no kde5.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Everything refering to software, pathes and all that should be
> > > > > > kf5. It does
> > > > > > not make sense for our libs, neither does it make sense for
> > > > > > frameworks.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > (Branding point of view, ignore at will. :P)
> > > > > 
> > > > > The tool kde4-config has also been renamed to kde5-config.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So if we go with "kde5", I don't see a strong reason to use "kf5"
> > > > > in the plugin install directory.
> > > > 
> > > > Just to be clear (I think I wasn't in my previous email): it should
> > > > be kf5, not kde5.
> > > 
> > > Just to be clear too, I don't have a strong opinion on the naming, but
> > > if we continue to say that KDE based on kf5 will still be KDE 4, then
> > > we should not use "kde5" in various places.
> > > 
> > > What will the version number of the first KDE SC release based on KDE
> > > frameworks be actually ?
> > 
> > Any opinions on this ?
> > Will it be e.g. KDE SC 4.15 ?
> > This would sound more like a normal minor release, but I expect we'll
> > have a few regressions here and there.
> 
> I'm not sure what you have in mind here. There's no concrete plans that I
> know of, it's too early for that, but I also don't see any point in a
> 4.15... What would that mean? Porting everything to KF5+Qt5 ... that
> sounds like a KDE SC 5.x to me, we've always had matching version numbers.

Right.
But AFAIK we always tried to say that there will be no KDE 5...
As Sebas confirms in his email.
And if we'll call it "KDE 5" anyway, then why not just use "kde5" in names 
instead of "kf5", which doesn't have the well-known "kde" 

Alex


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