Someone is trying to step up. See https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/merge_requests/46/ <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/merge_requests/46/diffs>
We probably should try to support them, instead of shutting down the project. Cheers, Carl On Fri, Oct 13, 2023, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > A year later nobody has stepped up to help maintain this. As I understand > it's not a case of simply switching to KF6 but using various internal and > private APIs are need closely tracked. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'd like > to propose to archive this project for now until a maintainer is found. > > Jonathan > > > On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 at 13:31, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fe...@gmx.de> wrote: >> On 7/27/22 13:14, Aleix Pol wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:15 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> >> > wrote: >> >> Michail has announced he's not going to be developing Latte Dock in future >> >> https://psifidotos.blogspot.com/2022/07/latte-dock-farewell.html >> >> Thanks for all your work Michail! >> >> >> >> As far as we can tell Latte Dock is a popular Plasma addon. If anyone is >> >> looking for a project to take on this is your chance. >> >> >> >> Otherwise I expect it'll stop working before too long as it uses various >> >> private APIs so we'll need to tell distros to stop shipping it when it >> >> does. >> > Maybe someone could sit down and see which private APIs are being >> > used? then we can make sure it's in the right side of things and it >> > keeps working *FOREVER*. >> > >> > Aleix >> >> I think it could make sense to add Latte to the regular Plasma release, >> for the following reasons: >> >> - It gives us regular releases "for free", which makes sure that >> occasional fixes/improvements actually reach users. It would be a shame >> if those never see the users because no one feels responsible enough to >> make a release >> >> - Having Plasma and Latte in sync helps with the private API problem >> since a release of Latte has to only support one Plasma release. See >> e.g. the recent KPipeWire topic where Plasma wanted to remove things >> Latte uses.
