Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-09-27 Thread Olivier Churlaud
Hi, Le mardi 27 septembre 2016, 18:24:36 CEST Jens Reuterberg a écrit : > This is actually fairly tricky because what is needed is a metric to work > towards: sayiing "fast and stable" is not very exact. > > But you raise fair points - how do we ensure that it doesn't exclude anyone? > To me a vi

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-09-27 Thread Jens Reuterberg
This is actually fairly tricky because what is needed is a metric to work towards: sayiing "fast and stable" is not very exact. But you raise fair points - how do we ensure that it doesn't exclude anyone? To me a vision is a statement of intent, but not a boundary beyond practical choices. "Sh

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-09-26 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 26.09.2016 13:27, Olivier Churlaud wrote: Hi, Sorry if I come late, I wasn't aware of this thread... Le lundi 26 septembre 2016, 12:56:25 CEST Jens Reuterberg a écrit : "Plasma is for people using a computing device in a professional context, where productivity, performance and privacy are e

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-09-26 Thread Jens Reuterberg
So the current version after revisions looks like this. To this comes of course addendums like the one in previous versions. We simply want feedback on this so that we know the previous objections are cleared out and we can go forward "Plasma is for people using a computing device in a professi

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, April 05, 2016 12:17:59 AM David Edmundson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > I'm not convinced performant is a word alth

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, April 05, 2016 10:46:55 AM Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2016, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > > > > It is clearly jargon. As Jens already said, th

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-05 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 05 April 2016, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > I'm not convinced performant is a word although it seems to be used > > > for computer jargon > > > > > > http://engl

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Jens Reuterberg
On the one hand I fell in love with the word "nimble" (We have to do something cool based on words like "nimble" and "swift" one day - I don't know what but I will bribe you till you do it Sebas, we can't let those two words get to some marketing department somewhere) On the other David has som

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread David Edmundson
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > I'm not convinced performant is a word although it seems to be used > > > for computer jargon > > > > > > > h

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > I'm not convinced performant is a word although it seems to be used > > for computer jargon > > > > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the-wo

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I'm not convinced performant is a word although it seems to be used > for computer jargon > > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the-word > -performant It is clearly jargon. As Jens already said, th

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread David Edmundson
​I really like it. ++ It's distilled quite nicely into being a genuinely useful product without being too restrictive. David ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Jens Reuterberg
In all fairness Thomas mentioned that too :D But we thought "oh computer stuff works, lets keep it" plus its a nice catch-all word isn't it... Don't know of an alternative to it without adding a lot of extra word faffing tbh. (Anyone who knows: HALP!) During CERN professionals came up as an exa

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 04 April 2016, Jens Reuterberg wrote: > Thanks for feedback! :) > > > First, it looks very professional, nice :) > > one thing tough , is the underline of the words, the red underline may > > look like a spellcheck error (i'm wondering if something else could be > > used instead of an un

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Jens Reuterberg
MORE IRC stuff posted for safekeeping: [16:04] "for multiple device classes" and "computer users" could be better coupled, "device" can be all kind of things, but is first in text, while "computer" might be more bound to "desktop computer" and comes second. that part IMHO needs rework [16:04]

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Jens Reuterberg
Ok so some good criticism from IRC that I thought I should document here for posterity: [15:57] - criticism: "Plasma is not good enough for professional use" [15:58] - people complaining "but this is supposed to be a just for fun thing, nothing serious! I hate you now!" [15:58] jensreu: poi

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Jens Reuterberg
Thanks for feedback! :) > First, it looks very professional, nice :) > one thing tough , is the underline of the words, the red underline may look > like a spellcheck error (i'm wondering if something else could be used > instead of an underline, like bullets, those icons in small, or just a > bac

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On 4 April 2016 at 14:58, Jens Reuterberg wrote: > Thanks for feedback! :) > >> First, it looks very professional, nice :) >> one thing tough , is the underline of the words, the red underline may look >> like a spellcheck error (i'm wondering if something else could be used >> instead of an under

Re: A Plasma Vision draft

2016-04-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 04 April 2016, Jens Reuterberg wrote: > Hey, so me and Thomas have been hard at work on this for a while now and I > think we are at a good point to show what we got. > > Please remember that THIS IS JUST A DRAFT! Nothing is set in stone even if > the document looks fancy (the PNG attach