On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Aurélien Gâteau <agat...@kde.org> wrote: > [Damn. Just when I say I am out of this discussion, a message arrives I feel > the urge to answer.] > > Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 14:31:08 Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : >> it would be like saying that Calligra, Amarok and Digikam are somehow of a >> different class compared to KMail because KMail is in the SC. that is not >> how we've been dealing with applications for years now. > [snip] >> if we look at the technical artifacts, it is apparent that Plasma Active is >> one of the KDE Workspaces, on equal terms to Plasma Desktop and Plasma >> Netbook (and vice versa), and that work on one improves the others. > > I would like to clear one misunderstanding: the fact I placed Plasma Active > out of the KDE SC does not mean I consider the product to be a second-class > citizen or that I consider it not to be a fully-fledged Plasma workspace. It > just means it is released using a different schedule, which is totally fine. > > Perhaps the "KDE Workspace" box should be named " KDE SC Plasma Workspaces".
As one of the most active Talkers about KDE on universities that are not on the IT field, I strongly disagree with that. I'v been doing talks on a lot of fields ( from Design schools to History universities ) and the main point of doubt on the atendees is the naming convention ( over 20 talks this year ), one girl actually send me an e-mail as follows, translated from portuguese.: "Dear tomaz, I actually like your talk and I do agree on most things that you'v said, unfortunately, the wikis and pages about KDE are confusing, for instance, from your talk I know that kde has a collection of software that are free to use and modify and I don't need to pay for them even if I install them here on the university, but what are the differences between KDE, I mean, why is 'KDE' the people and not the programs? There's really a need for namings such as 'KDE' and 'KDE SC' and 'Plasma' and 'Nepomuk - whatever this means' ? those namings are confusing, and if you guys really want a broader audience, you should really make it easy for people that are not on your field to use your software. I understand that technologies must have a name, I'm also an scientist after all, but you will not see a thing about paleobathymetry or stratigraphy in anything that I write if the focus is people outside of my area of knowledge. Best Regards, Ana Cristina" And I agree with her, she has a very good point. Tomaz Canabrava > Aurélien > _______________________________________________ > 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
