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<p>First we had PlasmaComponents (based on some Nokia crap and some custom things from late Plasma4)</p>
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<p>Then came along Plasma 5</p>
<p>PC2 which was a continuation of above</p>
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<p>Then QQC1 came along<br />
plasmastyle which was a QQC1 theme and you could write QQC1 and style as this.</p>
<p>PC2 was ported to wrap Plasmastyle but keep it's old API compatibility with some stuff removed, some stuff extending QQC1.</p>
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<p>Then QQC2 came along</p>
<p>You don't theme items you implement them with the template magic.</p>
<p>PC3 is a QQC2 implementation. <br />
If one wrote code for QQC2 it'd use the PC3 code. <br />
It was made an import as at this point in time QQC2 didn't have the style support it does now.<br />
Now it's also co-installed to /QtQuick/Controls.2/Plasma exposed as a style <br />
With some intention of dropping the PC3 import in the future.</p>
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<p>Then came along kirigami</p>
<p>which creates new templates for widget addons which then use the underlying QQC2 style.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R242 Plasma Framework (Library)</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D14345">https://phabricator.kde.org/D14345</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ngraham, Plasma, mart, davidedmundson<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>kde-frameworks-devel, michaelh, ngraham, bruns<br /></div>