[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Ivan Čukić]

Yet again: We already stated that it will *not* be Month1 update to Plasma
Month2 Year ... but Second update to ...

Cheerio,
Ivan


On 23 January 2014 14:46, Markus Slopianka <kamikazow at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2014, 11:36:12 schrieb Martin Klapetek:
>
> > Given that we're dropping the name KDE from the working desktop almost
> > completely and changing it for "Plasma" (so you'll no longer run "KDE" on
> > your PC but you'll run "Plasma") I hope this will prevent that.
>
> Nothing will be prevented if the Plasma maintainers actually opt for
> "August
> 2014 Update of the May 2014 release of Plasma by KDE".
>
>
> > If they
> > call it Plasma 2 in the media, I don't care that much as long as it's
> clear
> > what it actually is and that it has a clear relation to KDE.
>
> Just yesterday I saw this blog post by our own KDE guys at Fedora and I
> quote:
>
> "If you install kde5-workspace package, you can also have a sneak peek at
> what
> Plasma guys are doing for Plasma 2! Your display manager should have “KDE
> Plasma Workspace 2” entry in session types list, which will log you into
> Plasma 2 session."
> http://www.progdan.cz/2014/01/kde-frameworks-5-and-plasma-2-on-fedora/
>
> KDE5 Workspace, Plasma Worspace 2, and Plasma 2 all mixed in a single
> paragraph. Oh, and no word about these things just being tentative names.
>
> Apparently our own guys are confused by the whole situation and that's even
> before any public announcement of throwing even more confusing date-based
> version numbers into the mix.
>
> The media, btw, also reads Planet KDE. Therefore any "informal developer
> slang" is adopted by them as well.
> "August 2014 Update of the May 2014 release of Plasma by KDE" is NOT sane
> marketing.
>
> Oh, and btw: The plasma2 package has the version number 4.90.1 over there
> at
> Fedora. Plasma 2 version 4.90.1 ... so unconfusing and by no means a road
> to
> "KDE5"...
>
> Markus
>
>
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