Plasma naming scheme

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 17:31:42 UTC 2015


On Monday 05 January 2015, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > 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.

end user product and library are on a different "level of abstraction" so an 
implementation detail, relevant only for developers

> 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.

yes, kindof "the thing" that we give you that just works, in the end composed 
by a bajillion tiny products but again an implementation detail (and if one of 
such components wants to advertize itself as well, for instance kwin to people 
who know and care what a windowmanager is, that's fine too)


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Marco Martin


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