[Kde-imaging] Gwenview, kdegraphics and libkipi

[Angelo Naselli]

Alle 09:37, mercoledì 17 gennaio 2007, Tom Albers ha scritto:
> At Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:46, you wrote:
> > Alle 07:51, mercoledகஂ 17 gennaio 2007, Caulier Gilles ha scritto:
> > > This is not true Aurளூlien. If libkipi is hosted by KDE 4, i t will be
> > > ported to Qt4 ! Right ?
> > >
> > > If yes all host and kipi-plugins must be ported to Qt 4.0/KDE4.0.
> > > Merging Qt3.x and Qt 4.x will never work...
> > 
> > Ok, but... we'll have to do it in any case, isn't it?
> > 
> > Anyway, we can maintain a separate branch for Qt3's code, doing only 
> > bugfixing on that. 
> >
> > What do you think about?
> 
> That's not the complete story ;-)
> 
> When you are part of KDE, the advantage is that you don't have to make seperate releases anymore. The downside is that you need to honor the freezes of KDE. That means no binary incompatible changes between minor releases (4.0.1/4.0.2) and preferably not between majors (4.0.8/4.1.0). 
> 
> That means that as soon as KDE4 is out you basically can not make big changes to libkipi anymore. 
This could be a problem.
> 
> Porting needs to be done anyhow, but keeping two branches is always a pain when one of those branches is under development. So Porting is ok, adding new features to one of the branches would make stuff difficult.
> 
> There once was a day, not so long ago, that this list wanted to make big changes to libkipi. I did not see them (i could have missed them), but if everyone is fine with the current libkipi api, then a move is ok. 
Yes and I wonder when we're going to start that. I mean there are things should/could be improved.
I'd like to get a plugin by name for instance, in such a way a host application can put printwizard as 
default print option in file menu (if pw is enabled), maybe add a contest menu to sendmail if you 
select a picture (if sendimage is enabled) etc.
I mean the libkipi cannot lay down for a long time, and changes are needed.
IMO having libkipi in kdegraphics can happen when libkipi has more features
and changes can be done on kde major  releases.
Well if we don't mean to make any changes, we can do that without problems,
but we should acknoledge libkipi/kipi-plugins' defeat imo :(

As you know I'm not so old in this project and i'm not the right person
to take a decision like that, since i don't do a lot of libkipi changes :/ 
I suggest only to think well about that. 

Angelo
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