Latte Dock Farewell

[Carl Schwan]

Someone is trying to step up. See https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/merge_requests/46/ <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/merge_requests/46/diffs>

We probably should try to support them, instead of shutting down the project.
Cheers,
Carl

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> A year later nobody has stepped up to help maintain this.  As I understand it's not a case of simply switching to KF6 but using various internal and private APIs are need closely tracked. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'd like to propose to archive this project for now until a maintainer is found.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 at 13:31, 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.
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