Re: Moving print-manager and wacomtablet to Plasma
Hi, I can’t speak for wacomtablet but I support the idea of moving print-manager to Plasma. It always struck me as odd that it’s not part of Plasma. Realistically there’s plenty of CUPS-based printer UIs, so I don’t see why anyone would ours, which is pretty tightly integrated, outside of Plasma. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: Moving print-manager and wacomtablet to Plasma
I've been having similar thoughts about the situation recently and support the idea. Nate On 6/24/23 14:31, Nicolas Fella wrote: Hi, print-manager and wacomtablet are in a somewhat odd place currently. They provide integration of (printers|tablets) into Plasma via KCMs, kded modules, plasmoids etc, to the point where they are not that useful outside of Plasma (technically they should mostly work outside of Plasma, but it doesn't make a lot of sense UX-wise). Despite their close alignment with Plasma they are not developed and released as part of Plasma though. print-manager is part of Gear while wacomtablet is independently releases (and hasn't had a release since 2019!). While being slightly awkward this was mostly not an issue in the past, but now with Plasma 6 on the horizon we have a challenge. To be useful with Plasma 6 they need to be ported accordingly, and a ported version needs to be released together with Plasma 6. Both projects build against Qt6 already, but porting the applet requires larger changes that are incompatible with Qt5/Plasma 5. Given the close tie of both projects to Plasma I propose that we start releasing them as part of Plasma beginning with Plasma 6.0 (and drop print-manager from Gear at an appropriate time). Thoughts? Cheers Nico
Moving print-manager and wacomtablet to Plasma
Hi, print-manager and wacomtablet are in a somewhat odd place currently. They provide integration of (printers|tablets) into Plasma via KCMs, kded modules, plasmoids etc, to the point where they are not that useful outside of Plasma (technically they should mostly work outside of Plasma, but it doesn't make a lot of sense UX-wise). Despite their close alignment with Plasma they are not developed and released as part of Plasma though. print-manager is part of Gear while wacomtablet is independently releases (and hasn't had a release since 2019!). While being slightly awkward this was mostly not an issue in the past, but now with Plasma 6 on the horizon we have a challenge. To be useful with Plasma 6 they need to be ported accordingly, and a ported version needs to be released together with Plasma 6. Both projects build against Qt6 already, but porting the applet requires larger changes that are incompatible with Qt5/Plasma 5. Given the close tie of both projects to Plasma I propose that we start releasing them as part of Plasma beginning with Plasma 6.0 (and drop print-manager from Gear at an appropriate time). Thoughts? Cheers Nico
