Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, December 12, 2011 08:24:21 Gravis wrote: > yeah, no notification classes (yet) but there is dbus in qt. > > there are a lot of basic and advanced things in Qt that KDE isnt using > but using their own implementation or variant. this may be an issue of > code being merged into Qt and th

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-12 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Gravis wrote: > there are a lot of basic and advanced things in Qt that KDE isnt using > but using their own implementation or variant.  this may be an issue of > code being merged into Qt and the KDE code not being deprecated but i > can't say for certain. > > -Gr

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Gravis
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 17:03 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote: > On Monday 12 December 2011 00:55:15 Gravis wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:22 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote: > > > Dependencies are only an issue if the application doesn't actually > > > 'depend' on them. If the application needs them to fun

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Mason
On Monday 12 December 2011 00:55:15 Gravis wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:22 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote: > > Qt is just the framework which makes building the functionality of > > applications easier..so not every bit of functionality that an > > application has should wind up in Qt. The more

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Gravis
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:22 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote: > Qt is just the framework which makes building the functionality of > applications easier..so not every bit of functionality that an > application > has should wind up in Qt. The more uncommon or complex the application, the > more non

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Gravis
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 00:49 +0100, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, December 11, 2011 17:35:40 Gravis wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 22:59 +0100, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > > > i'm not sure what you mean by this .. all KDE applications and libraries > > > are based on Qt. perhaps you could

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Mason
On Sunday 11 December 2011 23:37:28 Gravis wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 10:13 +1000, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:35:40 PM Gravis wrote: > > > konsole requires all these packages to be installed. > > > > Thats just a silly argument. Konsole does not exist in a vacuum, its

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Gravis
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 10:13 +1000, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:35:40 PM Gravis wrote: > > konsole requires all these packages to be installed. > > Thats just a silly argument. Konsole does not exist in a vacuum, its a part > of > the kde desktop - all those dependencies are

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:35:40 PM Gravis wrote: > konsole requires all these packages to be installed. Thats just a silly argument. Konsole does not exist in a vacuum, its a part of the kde desktop - all those dependencies are also shared with the vast majority of all the other KDE apps and have t

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, December 11, 2011 17:35:40 Gravis wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 22:59 +0100, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Sunday, December 11, 2011 16:45:43 Gravis wrote: > > > >From what I've read (a long while back), KDE is trying to switch to all > > > > > > Qt code. > > > > i'm not sure what you

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Gravis
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 22:59 +0100, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, December 11, 2011 16:45:43 Gravis wrote: > > >From what I've read (a long while back), KDE is trying to switch to all > > > > Qt code. > > i'm not sure what you mean by this .. all KDE applications and libraries are > based on

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, December 11, 2011 16:45:43 Gravis wrote: > >From what I've read (a long while back), KDE is trying to switch to all > > Qt code. i'm not sure what you mean by this .. all KDE applications and libraries are based on Qt. perhaps you could clarify what you are referring to? -- Aaron J.

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 11 de desembre de 2011, a les 16:45:43, Gravis va escriure: > From what I've read (a long while back), KDE is trying to switch to all > Qt code. You've been wrongly informed. KDE uses only Qt code since ages. Albert > I don't know what is going on behind the scenes but I think > ef

Qt migration efforts

2011-12-11 Thread Gravis
>From what I've read (a long while back), KDE is trying to switch to all Qt code. I don't know what is going on behind the scenes but I think efforts to accomplish this goal need to be ramped up. Here's what I propose: almost all of the new code should use Qt or not be accepted into KDE's core ap