Hey, Until now, we've been using "Plasma 2" as a working title for the next version of Plasma. We never formalized this, and the last discussion we had about this died out without producing a clear result. We've gone over these points during the sprint, and discussed some details about it.
Some things that came up that we think are important for a new name: - We don't want it to be too technical, it should be engaging to "normal people" - Version numbers seem confusing an not very expressive, these should rather be a technical detail (for example to group bugzilla entries) - We want something that can be related to its release date - We don't want to see it tied to a single class of devices We came up with the following scheme, which we'd like to propose: * The upcoming release of the KDE Plasma Workspaces is called Plasma * The version number used is Month (as name) + year * Each release gets a codename based on a marine animal (*1), in alphabetical order, one for each feature release * The exact name should be decided by the promo team (we have domain experts that can give input, *ahum*) * "workspaces" should hardly be used at all, it's a technical term and doesn't bear all that much meaning for users So, some examples how that's used: * "Please file a bug against Plasma June/2014" * "Plasma by KDE" (don't use "KDE Plasma", but rather "by KDE") * "KDE Releases Plasma Angelfish" A release could go along with an illustration of said animal to make it more engaging. (*1) we chose from a lot of options, and find marine animals quite nice for the following reasons: - Many options - Animals are easy to relate to for non-technical users - There are many choices, and they can be connected to different characteristics (think of swordfish for speediness, for example) - The names often bear some meaning without knowing the exact animal in question - It's rather easy to express concepts like organic, elegance, while being playful and colorful Some example that I've found possibly suitable after a bit of research: Angelfish (example http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Angelfish , eloquent and colorful ), Barracuda ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Barracuda ; fast and mean ), Clownfish ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Clownfish ; small but fierce ), etc. As you can see, there's quite the variety. Feedback to this proposal is very welcome, but please keep in mind that we would like to move on with this question. It's highly subjective to bike-shedding, and a decision is better than no decision. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel