On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex, > > On 09/09/2014, at 7:48 PM, Aleix Pol wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have heard that Dr Konqi source code for Frameworks/KF 5 > > has been placed in plasma-workspace. > > > > Please could you consider keeping it in some location that is > > common to all platforms? This includes both Linux platforms and > > non-Linux platforms, such as Windows and Apple OS X, where > > Plasma is not usually required. > > > > Dr K used to be in kde-runtime on KDE 4 and is needed on > > every platform, along with KCrash. > > > > > > It was placed there because it pulls a large bunch of dependencies we > > don't want for KCrash framework. Some work on it is needed though. > > > > Aleix > > As mentioned in my other post, I am doing some work on Dr Konqi, > mainly to get it to work properly (and not crash) in KDE 4 on Apple OS X. > > I think my bug fixes and changes to keep up with new versions of > Bugzilla software (on the b-k-o database), will be forward portable > to KF5/Frameworks. > > Re dependencies, I think I can remove a large indirect one: Dr K's > dependence on KCookieJar and kded. Bugzilla is no longer using > cookies. > Good! > > I see Dr K as an app, to be ported to Frameworks just like any other > app, but sooner than most. I am not putting up my hand for that, > because of advancing age and plans to retire from KDE work. > > There are several other apps and utilities in kde-runtime. Have all > of those gone into plasma-workspace? > > Some of them would definitely be needed on all platforms, some would > be peculiar to a KDE desktop and some might be obsolete (e.g. Nepomuk) > or handled another way in KF5. > > Is there a plan to position and port them? > DrKonqi has already been ported and Nepomuk is not used. Dependencies in the frameworks port of DrKonqi are: KF5::I18n KF5::WindowSystem KF5::CoreAddons KF5::Service KF5::ConfigWidgets KF5::JobWidgets KF5::KIOCore KF5::Crash Qt5::DBus KF5::WebKit KF5::WidgetsAddons KF5::Completion KF5::Wallet > > Cheers, Ian W. > Aleix