I see that somebody wants to resuscitate KDE on Windows or it seems . This project freezed at 4.10.2 .
2015-10-20 16:49 GMT+02:00 Christoph Cullmann <cullm...@absint.com>: > Hi, > > after some patching, we got around to a state that allows to e.g. use > KWrite > on Windows or Mac with stock frameworks master and stock Qt 5.5, without > any additional > patches and no stuff like dbus running. (as standalone installer/bundles) > > To have KIO working, one needs to teach it how to find the .protocol > files, like > ATM done by some patches to Qt by the Windows folks (or we avoid that by > embedding that > info in the slaves in the plugin meta data), for icons you need to set the > icon lookup > path + theme hardcoded. > > My question: What is the actual goal for frameworks on non-linux like (or > non-xdg conform) > or whatever called operating systems? > > My personal current goal is to have them in at state that allows: > > 1) use stock Qt as base > 2) have frameworks in a state that allows them to be used in application > standalone installer/app-bundle without global stuff required > 3) avoid the use of non-existing stuff like the dbus session bus > > For the "make it easy to bundle" I patched some frameworks to support > stuff inside qt resources. > (xmlgui for ui files, kconfig for global default config files) > > That works only, if the applications bundle their ui files in resources, > too, otherwise, they just won't be found > and the applications break, unless you patch again Qt to look in > non-standard locations. > > For the "non-dbus" I made some stuff bit more "failure safe", if no bus is > around, on cost of features. > (like for kio, no instant segfault anymore, just no working dbus related > stuff) > > Here the applications need a bit care, too, like not exit, if they can't > register on the bus. > > Is that just my personal goal or is that what we want to have as > frameworks goal on such operating systems? > Would that make the stuff more usable for Krita for example? > > Greetings > Christoph > > -- > ----------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann --------- > AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH Email: cullm...@absint.com > Science Park 1 Tel: +49-681-38360-22 > 66123 Saarbrücken Fax: +49-681-38360-20 > GERMANY WWW: http://www.AbsInt.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234 > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > Kde-windows@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows >
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