On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klape...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Mark Gaiser <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> It just shows that not everyone is happy with the initial proposal. >> >> "The next version of plasma" has always been made public under the names: >> - PW2 >> - Plasma Workpaces 2 >> - Plasma 2 >> >> Yes, we right now have "Plasma 4.xx" >> We call it "Plasma". We hardly ever put a version behind it. >> >> I really think it makes perfect sense to just call it "Plasma 2". It's >> very much in the direction you folks (those blogging about plasma) >> have always named it. To me it just doesn't make much sense to >> suddenly entirely drop that de facto new name for "Plasma June/2014" >> or "Plasma Angelfish <date>" or whatever the order is. > > > Let me give a different example from the same area - do you remember Windows > Longhorn? Everyone was talking about "Longhorn" always and how revolutionary > and new it will be...and then, Windows Vista came out. From the very same > company, Windows Vienna turned into Windows 7. And many others could be > found.
The comparison isn't fair. The name change from Longhorn to Vista had cost Microsoft billions! Literally. The change from Vienna to 7 wasn't that big of a deal since it was already mostly known as windows 7 before it became the official name. Big company's can pull these stunts. They have the marketing budget. We - KDE - can't pull that stunt. There is no marketing capital like those big company's have. We need to slowly build momentum starting from the very first blog about a new piece of software and sticking to it's name or change it slightly. But the general structure should remain the same i think. > > So "suddenly entirely dropping de facto (public) names" is not that uncommon > in our area and I personally think it's not unreasonable to drop working > names either. Think of it as developers working with some name because they > need to call it somehow, then when they are done, the marketing phase starts > and the marketing people think of a new name for it. And we could sell the > new name exactly like this - "Unveiling the final Plasma by KDE", done. > > Cheers > -- > Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
