Hi, Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Replying from my phone. I think the project now uses "KDE" to refer to a > combination of the organisation and its developer community. The project > now uses the phrase "KDE Frameworks" to refer to the libraries and > frameworks for the desktop environment. Finally "KDE" seems to have been > rebranded "Plasma Desktop"; however, major revisions are sometimes branded > "KDE Plasma x", where x in an integer. > > I suspect that "KDE Plasma" is meant to signify "Plasma, by KDE" (Eg: by > the organization and greater Dev community) or maybe symbolically > "community desktop". > > It might alternatively be transitory branding, eg: it makes sense to keep > "KDE" for people who know what it is, and add "Plasma" for the new > generation who only know the DE by that name. > > So I think the change is sensible, although I find it confusing that the > KDE acronym seems to be in the process of being redefined. I liked the old > name: Kopernikus Desktop Environment 😊
It's more a thing of: do we *want* that change? It requires changes in several places/packages/docu, and one could see it as a sort of 'cosmetic' change: users will still understand it, even if we leave it at "KDE"), we could also judge, it is a wishlist change, not strictly needed. Comments? Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
