Hi Jonathan,
Le 2021-02-15 à 09:49, Christoph Cullmann a écrit :
On 2021-02-15 15:36, Nate Graham wrote:
On 2/15/21 6:01 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
Here at KDE we've always struggled a bit with branding and the
announcement of formats for the bunch of releases that was
originally "KDE" then "KDE SC" then "KDE Applications" and at
Akademy 2019 we decided to debrand it and make it a release service
with lots of different stuff in it. We had monthly update
announcements that included those releases on the months when they
happened and otherwise included everything else released over the
past month. But the format doesn't seem to have caught on by
various metrics. So the promo group had some chat about different
formats you can read at https://phabricator.kde.org/T14091
<https://phabricator.kde.org/T14091>
Currently the plan is to reband it probably with the name KDE
Gear. That gets released every 4 months (same as currently) with a
big announcement for it and everything in it. It's still a
collection of apps and supporting libraries with no connection to
each other except they happen to be KDE projects which don't want to
do their own release work. Then every 4 months on the months
between times we have an update article highlighting all the other
stuff that has been released by KDE. The bugfix releases for KDE
Gear happen monthly as currently and only have a minimal announcement.
We hope this format will get some more traction with engagement from
outside press and social media buzz. Any comments welcome.
+1, I think this makes sense. I like "KDE Gear". It's short and sweet
and suggestive, but not descriptive.
+1, too
If I understand correctly, this is discussing announcements like
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2021-02-apps-update/
But what exactly are we trying to name here? A bundle which contains all
KDE applications as the ticket indicates?
In any case, "KDE Gear" sure is short and makes some sense if we
consider it related to Extragear, but for those who don't know KDE's
history, I am skeptical that gears are a good way to evoke applications.
Gears evoke internals (backend technology), not graphical applications
(frontends). If we take Microsoft Windows as example, we see gears are
used as icons for DLL files (libraries), among a few file types. The
corresponding KDE bundle would be KDE Frameworks.
That being said, I shall stress that:
* The gear is used in KDE's icon. So arguably, the gear means more
than "backend" in KDE context.
* English is not my native language.
Greetings
Christoph
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