ahmadsamir added a comment.

  In D27808#625186 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D27808#625186>, @meven wrote:
  
  > In D27808#625181 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D27808#625181>, @ahmadsamir 
wrote:
  >
  > > And another question, "General", "Menu", "Toolbar", how many users 
actually set these three to individual font families/styles/sizes?
  >
  >
  > If anything this is just not relevant here. Either you port things away 
from kde4support or you change the behavior but the two things should not be 
done together.
  >  Generally the community has rarely removed any working features and this 
is a kind of feature plasma is known for : customization.
  
  
  That wasn't my intention (I mean changing it in this diff), it was a BTW kind 
of thought/question "is this still needed/used nowadays?", I was thinking of 
posting the question to the frameworks ML... but was afraid it might start a 
flame/bike-shedding conundrum there, so I asked here instead :)
  
  > In D27808#625064 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D27808#625064>, @ahmadsamir 
wrote:
  > 
  >> In D27808#625052 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D27808#625052>, @meven wrote:
  >>
  >> > Porting with such feature regression is hard to justify.
  >>
  >>
  >> I honestly don't know how many users actually use that feature; if it's 
still widely used, then yeah, that would definitely be a feature regression.
  >>
  >> > Perhaps we should port KFontDialog (it is ~150 lines of cpp) to 
kwidgetsaddons instead, `KFontChooser` is already there.
  >> >  Or better perhaps implement here a simple QDialog embedding 
`KFontChooser` and providing equivalent features needed here that KFontDialog 
has.
  >> >  This is a typical work we did for KF5 
https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Porting_Notes
  >>
  >> Since, AFAICS, only the fonts KCM uses that functionality, it might be 
better to move/copy KFontDialog to the KCM, and maybe rename it; it'd be a 
helper class of sorts.
  > 
  > 
  > Moving KFontDialog would imply porting it to QDialog anyway.
  >  But license might get in the way since kdelibs4support is LGPL and plasma 
is GPL.
  >  It would mean the moved KFontDialog would stay LGPL in a GPL codebase. 
Which is possible but not recommendable at all.
  > 
  >>> implement here a simple QDialog embedding `KFontChooser` and providing 
equivalent features needed here that KFontDialog has.
  > 
  > I would suggest you this simpler way to do it, but the code of this QDialog 
helper would be loosely inspired by KFontDialog anyway but not LGPL.
  >  In the end that's pretty much the same thing as you suggested but better 
keep license potential issues at bay ;)
  
  Good point(s). :D

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