[kde-promo] Plasma naming scheme

Valorie Zimmerman valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 03:23:13 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> BTW, as this page isn't updated in last 4 years, I volunteer to update
> it regarding app names; KOffice and some of its apps do not exist
> anymore.

Oops, I didn't see this before doing some of that. However, I hesitate
to change any of the paragraphs at the end of the page as I don't know
exactly what has been decided about the branding. All of KOffice has
been changed to Calligra though.

Valorie

> On 6 January 2015 at 17:46, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 06 January 2015 14:11:49 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>>> > Does that make sense to everyone? And if so: Where should we publish it
>>> > and
>>> > where should we announce it?
>>>
>>> This nomenclature sounds fine to my ears. Does this need announcement? I
>>> think the Dot editors have some wiki pages with these things, but other
>>> than that, to my biased self, this is common knowledge / common sense?
>>
>> Well, if it were clear to everyone, we wouldn't have taken the effort to
>> define a naming scheme in the first place. Maybe the VDG is the only group to
>> which this wasn't clear yet (we were not sure whether to call it "Plasma
>> Desktop 5", "Plasma 5 Desktop" or "the Plasma 5 desktop", for example), but
>> maybe it's not 100% clear to others, either. The broad nomenclature is
>> probably clear at least to people within KDE by now, but we believe a good
>> brand communication should be consistent down to details like the ones
>> mentioned above.
>>
>> It probably doesn't need a public announcement, any maybe sending it to the
>> two lists I sent it to was sufficient. I'd also update the "KDE Brand Map" [1]
>> if that's the document which people who do public communication refer to.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
>> [1] https://community.kde.org/Promo/Branding/Map

> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
> KDE:
> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
> Calligra Suite:
> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
> Kexi:
> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
> Qt Certified Specialist:
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