Plasma Media Center Branding

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On July 15, 2010, Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> On Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:25:48 pm Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > On July 15, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> > > Also adding plasma-devel to the CC
> > > 2010/7/15 Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > > 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
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Ok, I gathered at Akademy (probably at your talk) that it would be a
> standalone app. The branding issue didn't occur to me at the time, but I
> had assumed it was a workspace because of the Plasma label and also
> written about it as if it was a workspace in a few places.
> 
> Possibly the use of the Plasma libraries is a good reason to call it
> Plasma, we just need to discuss.
> 
> Alternatively, maybe we have the app which is called $something  and can
> run anywhere and also a very simple Plasma Media Center workspace for
> full-time Media Center pcs that pretty much Plasma Desktop with
> different defaults: no panels and maybe just a couple of system monitor
> widgets, a button to launch $something and that launches $something full
> screen on login. So you can use $something on your Plasma Netbook
> powered laptop that you plug in to your TV to watch a video, but your
> little PC that sits under the TV all the time has Plasma Media Center
> because you don't use it for anything else.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Cool. There's time up until 1.0 or a tech preview push with one of the
> distros to get this worked out.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not going to get involved in that discussion (if there is one).

Sorry, I was just trying to justify why I thought it should be a workspace 
if it isn't.

> Cheers,
> Stu
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