On Thursday 08 May 2014 21:10:46 Sebastian K=FCgler wrote:

> Within the Plasma team, many of us would like to go forward using version=
 5
> for our upcoming release ("Plasma 5"). We'd like to propose it to be taken
> forward. (The version "in the code" is already at 5, anyway.)

I told you months ago that flip-flopping on the version number is bad =

marketing after you called the next Plasma "version 2" for over a year. Bac=
k =

then you guys insisted that ignoring the guy who works in marketing and usi=
ng =

"Plasma 2014.06" was a great idea and now you flip-flop again?
If you call it "Plasma 5" you'll definitively end up with everyone referrin=
g =

to it as "KDE 5".

The version number that has been promoted the widest is still "Plasma =

(Workspaces) 2". See for example
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=3D"plasma+workspaces+2"+site%3Aaseigo.blogspot.com
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=3D"plasma+2"+site%3Aaseigo.blogspot.com

Maybe you should fix the code and change the necessary instances of =

"Plasma/KDE 5" to "Plasma 2".


>  It communicates continuity

No, it communicates flip-flopping as stated above.


> It solves a bunch of technical inconsistencies (plasmapkg2 vs kcmshell5 --
> why has one the 2 appended, the other 5?), library sonames are 5 as well.

Fedora's KDE packagers say that installing "KDE 4" and "KDE 5" simultaneous=
ly =

won't be supported anyway. Why kcmshell5 then? Why not simply kcmshell?
Why do you think average users will look at that anyway?


> It indicates (like we did traditionally) that this is the 5th major versi=
on,
> building on a new Qt5, and Frameworks 5, we get to re-use that kind of
> consistency.

For years you guys stressed that Plasma was the first generation of an =

entirely new desktop shell and now it's not?

I don't get it...


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