[kde-promo] Plasma naming scheme

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 5 de gener de 2015, a les 01:34:17, Aleix Pol va escriure:
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > while writing up a vision for Plasma interaction, the VDG noticed that it
> > was unclear exactly what terms to use when referring to Plasma Desktop
> > specifically, so we thought it would make sense to clarify this.
> > 
> > Therefore, we went ahead and drafted some communication guidelines I'd
> > like to present for discussion:
> > 
> > - When talking about the the Plasma technology generically, use only
> > "Plasma", omitting the "5" as that is just an iteration of Plasma.
> > 
> > 
> > - When talking about a particular version of the technology, but not a
> > specific shell, use "Plasma [version]" e.g. "Plasma 5.1".
> > 
> > - When talking about the a specific shell but not about a specific
> > version,
> > use "Plasma [shell], e.g. "Plasma Desktop"
> > 
> > - When talking about a specific shell in a particular version, use 
> > "Plasma
> > [version] [shell]" e.g. "Plasma 5.2 Desktop", "Plasma 5.4 Active"
> > 
> > For example in release announcement we'd talk about the Plasma 5.2 release
> > and when there are shell specific changes we could write "Plasma Desktop
> > now has addition X"
> > 
> > Does that make sense to everyone? And if so: Where should we publish it
> > and
> > where should we announce it?
> 
> Well, it's still weird as Plasma is more than a technology. Also note
> there's a Plasma framework.
> 
> To me, the biggest problem with this is that you're just covering part
> of it here, given that Plasma is not only the shell(s) but the entire
> solution as well (kwin, system settings, some of the apps) or maybe
> not.
> 
> I've always missed something there, many people have tried to explain
> it to me, maybe I'm a bit hard.
> 
> Aleix
> 
> PS: thanks for raising the issue, I keep failing to explain it
> baltasar (kdeblog.com) or, well, we even fail to discuss Plasma in the
> office, where we often end up saying "plasma? which plasma?"

You'll always have this problem of granularity. Even with something as "easy" 
as okular you get, you mean the okular binary? the okular part inside 
konqueror? Or okular active? which of the released versions? Or do you mean 
the okular-calligra-plugin?

I think Thomas' guidelines make some sense, of course they are not perfect but 
that doesn't mean they're bad.

Cheers,
  Albert

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