[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Martin Klapetek]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > I think this comparison is fair and I had it already written in my reply
> to
> > Markus (removed it as I don't like referring to the competition). Btw.
> how do
> > you know that it cost Microsoft billions? AFAIK "normal" users didn't
> know
> > that the next version was called Longhorn in the development. We
> shouldn't
> > expect that we as a group of engineers know these names, means that
> anybody
> > else knows the name.
>
> I can't find raw numbers on windows 7, but remember an article where a
> number in billions (1.7?) was named.
> I could find one from Windows Phone 7 which is 1 billion
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/microsoft-half-billion-dollars-windows-phone-7/
>
> However, "only" 500 million was for marketing in that article.
>

Yes, marketing. Which in MS's terms means billboards, ads, tv commercials,
posters, web ads, youtube ads, websites and other.

But nowhere it says that it cost them 500m to change from working title to
release name, that's just nonsense, sorry :)

But for well settled names it makes no sense to drastically change it.
> Which is about to happen for Plasma. For you - for KWin - there isn't
> an issue. KWin is a well established name and you only increase the
> version number. That's how it should be done imho.
>

As someone pointed down below, everyone calls it still KDE4 and that's
simply true. But from the next major version, we're basically changing the
name "KDE(4)" (the whole working desktop) to "Plasma (by KDE)", it's not
just about the underlying library. So it /already is/ a drastic change.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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