Moving print-manager and wacomtablet to Plasma

[Nate Graham]

I've been having similar thoughts about the situation recently and 
support the idea.

Nate


On 6/24/23 14:31, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> print-manager and wacomtablet are in a somewhat odd place currently.
> They provide integration of (printers|tablets) into Plasma via KCMs,
> kded modules, plasmoids etc, to the point where they are not that useful
> outside of Plasma (technically they should mostly work outside of
> Plasma, but it doesn't make a lot of sense UX-wise). Despite their close
> alignment with Plasma they are not developed and released as part of
> Plasma though. print-manager is part of Gear while wacomtablet is
> independently releases (and hasn't had a release since 2019!).
> 
> While being slightly awkward this was mostly not an issue in the past,
> but now with Plasma 6 on the horizon we have a challenge. To be useful
> with Plasma 6 they need to be ported accordingly, and a ported version
> needs to be released together with Plasma 6. Both projects build against
> Qt6 already, but porting the applet requires larger changes that are
> incompatible with Qt5/Plasma 5.
> 
> Given the close tie of both projects to Plasma I propose that we start
> releasing them as part of Plasma beginning with Plasma 6.0 (and drop
> print-manager from Gear at an appropriate time).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Nico
>