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          color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>[1] I would even go as far and to also merge KF5 Frameworks - after all these years we have to admit that the "Frameworks idea" (people using them outside of KDE) has never materialized.</p></div>
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<p>This bit I have to strongly disagree with. Sure, KF5 is not at the same level of Qt, but it's far from not being used externally. Here's just three examples for a single niche framework (syntax highlighting) from the top of my head:</p>

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<li class="remarkup-list-item"><a href="https://cullmann.io/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting/" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://cullmann.io/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting/</a> (QtCreator)</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item"><a href="https://kate-editor.org/2018/10/21/mit-licensed-ksyntaxhighlighting-usage/" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://kate-editor.org/2018/10/21/mit-licensed-ksyntaxhighlighting-usage/</a> (AbsInt)</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item"><a href="https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L540" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/KDAB/GammaRay/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L540</a> (GammaRay)</li>
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<p>All three have resulted in useful upstream contributions btw.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>TASK DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T10812">https://phabricator.kde.org/T10812</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ngraham, vkrause<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>vkrause, lbeltrame, ltoscano, cfeck, aacid, Yakuake, Okular, Dolphin, Kate, Spectacle, Konsole, Gwenview, KDE PIM, KDE Games, KDE Applications, ngraham<br /></div>