> On Feb. 24, 2015, 10:59 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > src/kcmoduleqml.h, line 36
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122706/diff/3/?file=351295#file351295line36>
> >
> >     When we do make a QML only system settings we're not going to want to 
> > use KCMModule at all, even if it's not shown?
> >     
> >     I imagine we'll end up writing a small QObject shim that copies the API.
> >     
> >     I'd just leave this until we find we need it, otherwise we're 
> > committing to a slightly weird API prematurely.
> 
> Marco Martin wrote:
>     I can move it out for now, but i don't think is realistic to expect to 
> port everything away from kcmmodule overnight. porting all to this will be 
> hard enough already, reporting a second time i think is really a framework6 
> thing.
>     If there will exist a qml based systemsettings, it will have to be able 
> to load things all the way in the transition spectrum: old qwidget ones and 
> those, which can ignore the qwidget part. It's clearly transitional but i 
> don't think there is a way to realistically have qobject only ones before 
> there is something working in place?
> 
> Marco Martin wrote:
>     Thinking about it, one way that and almost legacyless way could be done 
> is:
>     having in a separate library, tier2 a qobject based thing that has an api 
> similar to kcmodule, and doing the qml kcms directly in that.
>     then this class goes in pretty similar, except the plugins wouldn't 
> subclass it, but would be used directly to load one of those qobject only 
> thinghies.
>     the disadvantage would be that systemsettings, kcmshell (and pretty much 
> any app config dialog that loads kcms) would have to directly special case 
> for this, so the transition would be more painful.
> 
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     Makes sense. I think we can combine the two approaches.
>     
>     * New-style QML "KCMs" do not link KCModule directly, but rather use the 
> imports you describe.
>     * A special-sauce KCM does the necessary bits to load these new-style 
> KCMs (pretty much what this patch does, really)
>     
>     That way, we allow legacy-free new-style, but make it compatible with 
> everything old-style, QWidget-based KCMs, systemsettings, kcmshell, etc.
>     
>     A new "systemsettings-qml" would have to be special-cased in order to 
> also load KCModule/QWidget-based modules, but I don't think there's any way 
> around that anyway.

The architecture of System Settings should allow it to host native QML KCMs 
without having to use the KCModule class, assuming the appropriate changes are 
made.


- Ben


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On Feb. 25, 2015, 5:40 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 25, 2015, 5:40 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
> 
> 
> Repository: kconfigwidgets
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> this adds a new class called KCModuleQml
> it loads a KPackage with the same plugin name as the kcm, then loads its 
> mainscript qml file from it and puts it in a QQuickView used as main widget 
> of the KCM.
> 
> It supports two ways of loading the qml:
> one is in the showevent of the KCM qwidget, this is compatible with current 
> Systemsettings and kcmshell.
> the other way is with the mainUi accessor/qproperty. This will make possible 
> for a pure QML version of systemsettings (accessing directly mainUi without 
> showing qwidgets)
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   CMakeLists.txt f3aaf18 
>   src/CMakeLists.txt 10862c6 
>   src/kcmoduleqml.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kcmoduleqml.cpp PRE-CREATION 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122706/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marco Martin
> 
>

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