On Monday 19 August 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > Other proposals, ideas, tweaks to the above most welcome, but let’s try to > come to a consensus on this matter before the end of this month. > > then we can all move forward in confidence together, whatever it is we > decide.
after thinking about it for a while, just few considerations * we want to maintain the "kde is the community, not the software" mantra * so a name for "the product workspace" is needed * any descriptive name, sich as "workspace" "shell" "desktop" risks to be too narrow, nerdy and cold * a name that sounds cool but doesn't really describe something is better, "plasma" or "plasma active" are (as the term "firefox" per se doesn't have anything to do with browser) * Plasma has quite some luggage already, that may be an advantage or a disadvantage, i don't know (but we have years of climbing the googlability of the term already, that's quite an investment) * Plasma Active may indeed cause a problem in perception and bogus articles like "kde is dropping the desktop for tablets". Paradoxically I think the place where instead would have a good effect is the internal developer community (for applications developers there is still a bit of "the active version is not my problem, i care only about desktop" feeling * I'm not sure thinking about a completely different new name would come up with something that would work, but if someone can think about any, please speak ;) My vote would go for Plasma. hell, i would even go as far as changing the kickoff icon (no, not with the cashew, with something better :p) About numbers, 2 or 5 i don't know, they may risk to dilute the catchiness? Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
