KDE Terminology
Terminology about “KDE” itself¹
- “KDE” – Based on context, refers to either:
- The community of developers who create technologies for the KDE Software Compilation
- The applications and technologies created by the aforementioned community of developers.
- “KDE Platform”
- The technologies used for creating applications found within the KDE Software Compilation.
- “KDE Software Compilation”
- The umbrella term for the applications, workspaces, and platform.
- Sometimes abbreviated as “KDE SC”
- “Plasma Desktop”
- The name for the desktop environment in the KDE Software Compilation. This is also called your “Workspace”.
- (Much) Additional reading about this terminology can be found here.
Terminology about things encountered while using the KDE SC
- Repositories
- Also sometimes “Repos” for short.
- Refers to a location from which you can retrieve application or application updates, or even the latest updates to your Plasma Desktop, etc.
- Repositories will be covered in an upcoming article (this is my reminder to do just that!).
Sources
1. Repositioning the KDE Brand – 11/24/2009 - http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand
December 16th, 2009 at 06:15
Nice – not just this page, but the blog in general, it will be interesting to see how you get on with getting into KDE development, particularly as you can clearly write too
Re the terminology, you might like to add Plasma Netbook (or perhaps not yet as that won’t be officially released until SC 4.4). Also, SC has a slightly more specific meaning in that it is the Platform, workspaces and applicatons that we release together in one go – so it actually excludes some interesting apps like digiKam and Amarok who have their own release schedule. “KDE software” is I guess the ultimate catch-all.
Cheers,
Stu
December 18th, 2009 at 09:06
Re: branding…the “official” wiki page can be found here: http://community.kde.org/Promo/Branding. This might serve as a better long term reference than the Dot article you’re linking to because it will be updated over time versus the Dot article which is not going to change.