Latte Dock Farewell

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 2:31 PM Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 7/27/22 13:14, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:15 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> >> Michail has announced he's not going to be developing Latte Dock in future
> >> https://psifidotos.blogspot.com/2022/07/latte-dock-farewell.html
> >> Thanks for all your work Michail!
> >>
> >> As far as we can tell Latte Dock is a popular Plasma addon.  If anyone is looking for a project to take on this is your chance.
> >>
> >> Otherwise I expect it'll stop working before too long as it uses various private APIs so we'll need to tell distros to stop shipping it when it does.
> > Maybe someone could sit down and see which private APIs are being
> > used? then we can make sure it's in the right side of things and it
> > keeps working *FOREVER*.
> >
> > Aleix
>
> I think it could make sense to add Latte to the regular Plasma release,
> for the following reasons:
>
>   - It gives us regular releases "for free", which makes sure that
> occasional fixes/improvements actually reach users. It would be a shame
> if those never see the users because no one feels responsible enough to
> make a release
>
> - Having Plasma and Latte in sync helps with the private API problem
> since a release of Latte has to only support one Plasma release. See
> e.g. the recent KPipeWire topic where Plasma wanted to remove things
> Latte uses.

+1