> On June 9, 2013, 10:27 a.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Being past the Feature Freeze doesn't seem a good idea to me to remove a 
> > feature.
> 
> Simeon Bird wrote:
>     It isn't really removing a feature - the code in question does nothing at 
> all that I can see, and hasn't done for a while. In fact, I'm not sure the 
> FontAnalyzer really did anything even when strigi was in use, because 
> /usr/share/fonts was not indexed by default. Its just removing dead code. 
>     
>     It *is* a dependency change though, and I'm not sure what the rules are 
> for that. I guess it could be made optional, but since it doesn't do anything 
> that doesn't seem really worth the effort.
> 
> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     The FontAnalyzer has never been used by Nepomuk. That does not mean that 
> one one has ever used it.
>     
>     Maybe someone installs KDE and uses Strigi directly and therefore uses 
> the Font Analyzer? Or maybe someone uses KFileMetaInfo, which uses Strigi 
> internally. It doesn't seem like anyone is - 
> http://lxr.kde.org/ident?i=KFileMetaInfo - but this is just the code in the 
> KDE repositories.
>     
>     Do we want to risk breaking existing code even if it isn't ours? 
> Considering that Strigi is still going to be a compile time dependency for 
> kdelibs, I don't really see the big deal in having it for kde-workspace.
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Vishesh: exactly what i wanted to say, i just was lazy to write it all in 
> clear.

hm, yes, ok. You're quite right, I'll ditch the patch.


- Simeon


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On June 10, 2013, 1:09 a.m., Simeon Bird wrote:
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> (Updated June 10, 2013, 1:09 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for kde-workspace and Nepomuk.
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> So far as I can see, the only thing depending on strigi still in 
> kde-workspace is a strigi plugin called FontAnalyzer,
> and, I think, this doesn't do much now nepomuk doesn't use strigi. (I'm 
> curious as to why it was in kde-workspace 
> in the first place, instead of in strigi, actually)
> 
> This patch removes the strigi dependency and FontAnalyzer from kde-workspace.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   kcontrol/kfontinst/CMakeLists.txt 1ba461cf9c09a0dba3af13b67f585db08c7da77a 
>   CMakeLists.txt d233cf4a745ea1c6caf0b560539a68f71ab41020 
>   kcontrol/kfontinst/strigi-analyzer/CMakeLists.txt 
> ab5643ec4f1ce47f17b598e016300d51e181c946 
>   kcontrol/kfontinst/strigi-analyzer/FontEngine.h 
> 028e971f34a52b4bda4df8130cbe2af688c45e8b 
>   kcontrol/kfontinst/strigi-analyzer/FontEngine.cpp 
> 8e00bd550c9e2a3e1b25ef6cf6a3d510576e67d8 
>   kcontrol/kfontinst/strigi-analyzer/FontThroughAnalyzer.h 
> 0e0a7a8eac99c85ed21d9ab3305a2a75b18e9ec9 
>   kcontrol/kfontinst/strigi-analyzer/FontThroughAnalyzer.cpp 
> ffa22a9ad09617b6ab87652ee0a9f246e0502227 
>   plasma/desktop/applets/kickoff/CMakeLists.txt 
> e9e288866ecdcfd7aa35c086dfe78d4252748995 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110898/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Compiled, ran
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Simeon Bird
> 
>

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