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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Plasma 5
From:       Markus Slopianka <kamikazow () gmx ! de>
Date:       2014-05-09 0:15:08
Message-ID: 2302813.NqV5Ltu8MT () ronny ! linux
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On Friday 09 May 2014 00:58:24 Martin Klapetek wrote:

> One blog, where your examples were from, surely isn't "broadly".

Are you really going that route? Either "Plasma 2" or "Plasma Workspaces 2" 
was the formal name for the next-generation Plasma for over a year. It was 
used on Planet KDE, it was used on KDE.News, etc.
IT news media adopted the term.
Just because I didn't list every website on earth with that term doesn't 
change facts.

And even after you guys without background in marketing ignored the guy with 
background in marketing and chose "Plasma 2014.6", that name wasn't even used 
publicly much. Instead "next Plasma", "next generation Plasma", "Plasma Next", 
etc. was used and AFAIK you never publicly deprecated the name "Plasma 2". As 
such at least most people on forums and websites I follow used either Plasma 2 
(or KDE5) which still makes "Plasma 2" a wider known name to the public than 
either "Plasma 2014" or "Plasma 5".

I've read comments by trolls who "argued" that KDE is stupid because you can't 
even agree on names and change it so often nobody can keep up.
(They meant KDE4->SC4->Plasma)
Now you are confirming them.

For years it was so very important to you that "KDE" is the name of the 
community. IIRC it was a deliberate decision by the Plasma team to support the 
community by not using the "5" in the Plasma product name.
Now it's suddenly "We don't care if people call it KDE5"....

It's jumping from one argument to the opposite is certainly something few 
people will understand. I don't understand it and I'm rather involved....



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