[Panel-devel] name for kde4

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi all..

this name was mentioned to me by someone else as a possibility for some of 
kicker's new features in kde4 and i've decided to mercilessly steal it and 
posit it as the name for All That Was Once Kicker, Super Karamba and 
Everything Else We Manage to Suck In To Our Grand Scheme of Desktop Greatness 
That Is Panel-Devel:

	plasma

what do you think? yes? no? opinions? since this is more than just my toil now 
i do not feel comfortable simply slapping a sticker on the side of this puppy 
without some consensus ;)

personally i think plasma is a powerful and catchy name. it resonates with 
power, energy and "flash". it's a cool name i think we can get people excited 
about.

and with kicker entering a new stage of its life, i think it's time it had a 
new name. not to mention that with SK adding so much to it in KDE4, the new 
language bindings, the idea of including the desktop layer ..... it's time 
for a rebranding. much like the Firefox rebrand, we'll keep ahead with our 
code bases, but use the new name to communicate our going-forward vision to 
developers and usesr alike. the kicker binary will probably change names, but 
the code will likely still use the term Kicker for the panel bits; so 
"kicker" will become the panel subset of plasma, and libkicker will likely 
become libplasma with the addition of the SK efforts.

a KDE artist is working on a logo for it already. we discussed the 
symbolism/messages needed in it, so we'll see what he (pinheiro) comes up 
with. he approached me about the new logo and we discussed the new name, he 
liked it a lot and went off to work on some designs (which i'll share as they 
come in =) ... so i figure it's a good time to actually get some consensus on 
this matter.

what do you all think? (and please feel free to kick me in the teeth ;)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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