Plasma 5 RC

[Jonathan Riddell]

It's not good to rename stuff which has already been released.  When
KDE branding all changed we still used the terms KDE 3 and KDE 4 to
talk about old releases, try to be a revisionist rarely works.

Jonathan


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:44:32AM +0200, Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> Someone said "branding" so I appeared like a Bloody Mary figure in the mirror.
> 
> Why not Plasma 4? Or "Plasma Past"? I mean in all honesty the issue isn't that 
> big except from a communicative aspect (in which case "Plasma Past", "Former 
> Plasma" etc are all good) or a technical aspect (in which case the 
> 4.12.something or just Plasma 4 works)
> 
> On Monday 07 July 2014 10.16.44 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:36:00AM +0100, John Layt wrote:
> > > Co-installabilty of Plasma 4 and Plasma 5 with minimal work required
> > > by the distros is a must if we want to avoid the mess of KDE4.
> > > Already openSUSE has announced that you can't have both installed at
> > > once, which will force people to choose one or other, when what we
> > > really want is for them to be able to try Plasma 5 out while still
> > > being able to switch back to 4 if there are things that break their
> > > workflow.
> > 
> > They won't be co-installable just as konsole won't be co-installable
> > with its kdelibs4 version, it's a new version of the same programme.
> > But the parts that are used by applications, libraries and runtime
> > parts need to be co-installable so kdelibs4 and kf5 applications can
> > be installed on the same system.
> > 
> > Your e-mail also highlights a branding issue, now that we are calling
> > the new version of Plasma, Plasma 5 what do we call the old version.
> > I've been calling it Plasma 1 as that was the version number used and
> > it's not a good idea to be revisionist.
> > 
> > Jonathan
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