On Monday, February 8, 2016 4:07:35 PM CET Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2016, Martin Graesslin wrote: > > Plasma is the brand for the "Desktop Shell". Why use Plasma as the name > > for > > the components, then? Isn't that going to be confusing for devs. Like the > > assumption that you need Plasma or it's only for Plasma? Kind of > > introducing the same problems as we used to have with the generic KDE > > name? > > perhaps... > what i was thinking about is that we have this work tightly coupled together > the HIG work. > That's pretty much the pack of things that google calls "Material design" > (blackberry had cascades, microsoft could have metro but fucked up, apple > doesn't seem to have a name) > > "Breeze Design" wouldn't go i think, because is more just a theme, we > probably need an hip name for the components, and general design/hig of > applications. > > We could call it something high brow like "Flow" or some bs like that
maybe something for the VDG to come up with a good name, otherwise I vote for "Bikeshed Controls" :-P But yeah, if it goes into a tier 1 framework it makes sense to do a generic "hip" name. Cheers Martin
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