On Saturday, May 3, 2014, Martin Klapetek <martin.klape...@gmail.com> wrote: called "KDE Framework" a lot as one single framework is more common in IT world; Qt is a framework too after all (no trailing s)), the rest is a bit blurry, so people just go "KDE5" as it's simple and everybody understands what is meant by that. > My idea, which might be a complete nonsense, is to figure out the new overall branding for our software, keep it all simple, drop the technical accuracy (users don't care about technical stuff...so many times we have said that and then we have put it right into our main brand names) and be bold about it. No hiding it in the release text, make it big, clear and bold - "The software is no longer KDE, we're <whatever> now". And make it big promo. It can never succeed if it will be just one or two sentences in the release text. People need to get slapped in the face with it for it to have any effect. Twice.
This can work if (and probably only if) there won't be any big, SC-style release amymore, or at least significantly downscaled (windowmanager, desktop, filemanager, not much more) Having separate releases for pretty much everything else. On our side i realize that is much more work. So. How this will be for users? It will be significantly worse on a normal distribution release cycle. It will be significantly better if every less than core application is distributed on a rolling-like cycle (only applications tough, not the whole distribution) Probably most distributions would never ever do anything like that, so not that useful to even talk about it. But those are my 2c on the best case scenario
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