Plasma 5?

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 06.05.2014 17:27, Mario Fux wrote:
> Aren't the version number mostly important for bug reporting and there they
> are extracted automatically?

Not only for bug reporting but whenever there is a problem. I don't care 
what version of a piece of software I run, until the moment when 
something doesn't work. In that moment, I click "Help -> About", copy 
the version number and paste it into my search engine of choice, with 
the application name and the word "problem", "slow" or whatever. This 
increases the chance that what I find will be relevant for my situation 
a lot.
For Plasma problems I usually just use the version number of the current 
SC. Interestingly, looking at the package version may not be helpful 
these days, because some distros just go ahead and bump the package 
version of any package version number for Plasma packages up with every 
new SC release, regardless of whether there was a new Plasma Workspaces 
release with it.

I agree that we don't have to talk about version numbers in any 
marketing message (they don't carry actual meaning for users anymore 
since Chrome introduced inflationary version numbering), but we still 
have to provide easy ways for users to access them when there's a problem.