> On Feb. 17, 2014, 7:21 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > my personal opinion: it's still the development platform and I personally > > find development platform in that context better. Especially in the about > > application dialog. The old one tells me what it is, but what are > > "frameworks" to a user. Yes to us and the informed developers it's clear, > > but from a user perspective I think development platform might be the > > better term to use. In the same way we didn't call it kdelibs there before > > the switch to frameworks. > > Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Ah, maybe a bit of rationale, I think I was acting on assumptions here, > hence the short description. > > In KDE SC 4, we started the rebranding between the three pillars > (platform, workspaces and apps). The term platform communicates something to > build upon, while at the same time being a monolithic things. In order to > communicate the what and the why of our kdelibs(+other repos), we wanted to > move this brand to the Frameworks brand (hence the project name, and the name > for the collated release of the frameworks libraries). We talked about this > during the inceptional meeting for Frameworks 5, and concluded that a) we > want to go with the frameworks brand, since it supports better how the > individual libs can be used by third party developers, and that to underline > the significance of the newly modularized stack, with the release of the new > Frameworks, we would start to use that brand for the developer-facing bits of > KDE's product range (i.e. kdelibs cq. KDE Development Platform cq. KDE > Frameworks). Forthgoing, the brand "KDE Development Platform" is deprecated > (or used to re fer to 4.x and previous). > > I've dug a bit through the wiki, and could find at least a short recap of > that at http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Terminology#Platform_11 which > explicitely mentions frameworks as a product. > > This patch basically implements these branding-related decisions in the > places visible to the user. > >
ping!? - Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115840/#review50091 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Feb. 17, 2014, 7:04 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115840/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Feb. 17, 2014, 7:04 p.m.) > > > Review request for KDE Frameworks. > > > Repository: kxmlgui > > > Description > ------- > > Rename Platform to Frameworks in both about dialogs > > > Diffs > ----- > > src/kaboutapplicationdialog.cpp e7bd2fe4c50a4e13321e501608409a2f339636c2 > src/kaboutkdedialog_p.cpp b97ad1071f107bde2e829c9de7b343a17fd4cfe9 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115840/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Started kwrite, new names appear correctly. > > > File Attachments > ---------------- > > After and before > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/02/17/6ace6797-b82a-4c61-9bae-004ea7bdb654__aboutdialog.png > > > Thanks, > > Sebastian Kügler > >
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