On Thursday, 2015-08-20, 17:02:45, O.Sinclair wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2015 2:55:02 PM Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Thursday, 2015-08-20, 14:28:28, O.Sinclair wrote: > > > On Thursday 20 August 2015 2:06:34 PM Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > So there is one version for KDE's desktop product and one version for > > > > *all* > > > > application products. > > > > > > > > How do users of vendors cope who do not release all their applications > > > > in > > > > one go? > > > > > > > > How, for example, do users of Microsoft Office cope with the "problem" > > > > that > > > > Windows has a different version number than Office? > > > > Are they in panic when Skype does not share the version of one of > > > > these > > > > two? Are they close to dispair when .Net or Visual Studio bring in > > > > even > > > > more version numbers to the mix? > > > > > > > > Assuming they cope just fine, only keeping track of versions of > > > > products > > > > they themselves use, why would users of KDE software be incapable of > > > > doing the same? > > > > For sure users of KDE software have the same intelectual capacity as > > > > users > > > > of Microsoft software, do they not? > > > > > > In all honesty it is a bit confusing and your comparison does not quite > > > hold as MS Office is an application you choose/buy, not part of the > > > whole package so to speak. I am just beginning to get the whole concept > > > myself but of course different release dates, different numbering and > > > so on does not help. > > > > I am afraid I do not follow. > > > > MS Office is an application bundle that you can or can not choose/buy. > > KDE Applications is an application bundle that you can or can not choose. > > > > So the difference is that you buy one and not the other? > > > > What about Skype then? As far as I know it is still gratis. > > > > Cheers, > > Kevin > > Am not sure why you keep dragging Microsoft into this but I can safely > assure there are users (I know cause I support quite a few of them) who > have no inkling of the difference between Microsoft Windows and Microsoft > Office. I am using Microsoft as an example for a vendor with more than one product who also uses different versions, even also uses different version schemes for its products. While I do not myself frequent forums that discuss released of Microsoft software, I would be surprised if they also see these regular "oh my god, this different versions are so complicated" comments. But maybe I am wrong and this happens for every vendor. > The issue being raised via the forum post and later comments is rather that > the current versioning system can be confusing even to some of us who have > been around since KDE 3. I can relate to the date based version scheme being uncommon and confusing, but the Plasma version should be pretty straight forward, no? I guess people hoped that the date based scheme was already popular enough due to being used by Ubuntu to not be confusing anymore, but maybe a single incrementing number would have been even better. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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