Plasma 5?

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Jos,

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2014 19:25:51 Martin Graesslin wrote:
>> On Monday 05 May 2014 17:56:04 Ivan ?uki? wrote:
>> > Jens:
>> > > the best option is to simply go with "Plasma by KDE"
>> >
>> > and
>> >
>> > > "So what version am I running?" is "Plasma 2", "Plasma 5",
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > I don't mind the version 5.x (though, I didn't mind any of the proposals)
>> >
>> > Wondering what is Martin's stance on this since the year.month was his
>> > child.
>>
>> oh well, as I'm addressed I'm going to answer.
>>
>> As it's well known I dislike the 5 for two reasons:
>>
>> 1. It will end in "Plasma" == "KDE". sebas's point to that is that he
>> doesn't care, I understand that, but on the other hand I think it's a lost
>> opportunity.
>> 2. I'm afraid of people discarding the version because of fear of repeating
>> 4.0.
>
> Yeah. We once did the rebranding thing because there was confusion in our
> user base about what 'KDE' meant, which was hurting projects like Amarok and
> Krita (you mean you can run Krita outside of KDE? But you need KDE to run
> Amarok, right? I don't want all of KDE on my system just to run Kate...).

I am pretty sure Amarok was never the reason for the rebransing, at
least not willingly :)

Regards, Myriam

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