[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Mark Gaiser]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [please keep plasma-devel cq. kde-promo in CC:]
>
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 15:03:20 Markus Slopianka wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014, 10:56:02 schrieb Martin Gräßlin:
>> > We made it always quite clear that this is a working title
>>
>> No, you didn't. *I* know that it was meant to be a working title but it was
>> not always made clear in public communication.
>
> You know, an incomplete quote is not going to help in this discussion:
>
> Martin wrote:
>> We made it always quite clear that this is a working title - at least it was
>> always quite clear to us.
>
> The latter part is highly relevant here. Maybe removing it makes it easier to
> get your point across, but accuracy is quite important as well.
>
>> Quite frankly I cannot understand how you could have read my mail, which
>> includes links to four articles, and still claim that the working title
>> disclaimer has always been put in them...
>
> To me, it was always clear that it's a working title.
>
> Besides, out of 4 articles you link to, two don't even have "Plasma 2" in them
> (there's "Plasma Workspaces 2", which we don't want for other reasons).
>
> Most importantly: We are free to change the name, and given there are good
> reasons for it, and we haven't invested a lot in "Plasma 2" as a name, to me
> it's completely fine.
>
> In the professional world, the final name is almost never the same as the
> working title, it even can give some extra boost to the actual release.
>
> Bottom line: we can go on discussing this for ages, what we need is a decision
> (which we've proposed, and which has been further refined). Taking a few steps
> back and going over the same discussion again is not going to get any work
> done, it's just hindering.

It just shows that not everyone is happy with the initial proposal.

"The next version of plasma" has always been made public under the names:
- PW2
- Plasma Workpaces 2
- Plasma 2

Yes, we right now have "Plasma 4.xx"
We call it "Plasma". We hardly ever put a version behind it.

I really think it makes perfect sense to just call it "Plasma 2". It's
very much in the direction you folks (those blogging about plasma)
have always named it. To me it just doesn't make much sense to
suddenly entirely drop that de facto new name for "Plasma June/2014"
or "Plasma Angelfish <date>" or whatever the order is.