Would this discourage the use of "The KDE Project" which should now be simply referred to as "KDE"? On Tuesday 23 June 2009 02:27:24 am Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > The past years have seen pervasive developments in the KDE universe. The > application framework has grown, matured and gone cross-platform, as have > the applications. Strong growth in our community has created an > increasingly diverse and large set of high-quality applications. > > Over the years the meaning of "KDE" has changed. It means much more than > just a desktop environment now. First and foremost KDE stands for the > community, and it acts as an umbrella for the broad variety of software the > KDE community creates. > > KDE is no longer software created by people, > but people who create software. > > To be able to communicate this clearly in our messaging, it is necessary to > reposition the KDE brand so that it reflects this evolution and stands for > the community, our international team of talented developers, artists, > usability specialists, translators and other contributors who make the > project what it is today. > > The misconception that KDE software only runs on a KDE desktop stands as a > symbol for the reasons why we need to adapt our messaging to this changed > meaning of "KDE". The marketing and promo groups have completed a proposal > how to achieve that. One key element of this proposal is to retire the term > "K Desktop Environment", and just use "KDE". See the attached document for > details. > > The goal is to implement this proposal for the 4.3 release and use the > repositioned brand in our communication around the release accordingly. -- Celeste Lyn Paul KDE Usability Project usability.kde.org