Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> A very ignorant question - I see everyone refers to KDE Plasma. >> Is there in fact another non-Plasma version of KDE >> that one could run under Fedora? > > There have been some name changes, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE#Brand_repositioning: Thanks very much for your response. I skipped through the document above, but decided serious study was not a fruitful use of my time. > "After the repositioning, the name KDE no longer stands for K Desktop > Environment, as it now acts as an umbrella brand for software produced > by the community. What would have been previously known as KDE 4 will > now be referred as "KDE Software Compilation 4" (abbreviated "KDE SC > 4").[10] Regardless, many users still refer to it as KDE 4. With the > releases of Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5, the term "Software Compilation" > is again retired, in favor of the names of each specific product the > KDE community produces.[11] Many users still refer to various parts of > the project (particularly Plasma) as KDE 5." I'm afraid my conclusion on reading this is that the KDE team are seriously lacking in common sense. As far as I can see, the term Fedora/KDE is unambiguous, and the addition of the word Plasma adds nothing to it. I put it in the same pigeon-hole as saying GNU/Linux for Linux. > The Fedora KDE list would be the place to discuss this (I think you > also hang out there), see > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde I should indeed have sent my post to the redhat.fedora.kde newsgroup; but for reasons that escape me my posts to that newsgroup (through gmane) sometimes appear, and sometimes do not appear. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
