<p dir="ltr">Release team probably should have been cced also, my bad.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Jeremy Whiting" <<a href="mailto:jpwhiting@kde.org">jpwhiting@kde.org</a>><br>Date: Aug 26, 2015 6:09 AM<br>Subject: Kdetoys<br>To: "informing about and discussing non-technical community topics" <<a href="mailto:kde-community@kde.org">kde-community@kde.org</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">Hello all,<br>
<br>
tldr, should we kill kdetoys?<br>
<br>
As Applications 15.08 has been released I thought I'd take a look at<br>
which of our applications still need to be ported to Qt5/kf5. I did a<br>
diff of what we released in the 15.08 release vs what is already kf5<br>
based and got this result: <a href="https://paste.kde.org/prbvha5kh#line-13" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://paste.kde.org/prbvha5kh#line-13</a> <--<br>
paste should stay for a year. Items with + are not Qt5/kf5 based yet<br>
or weren't in the 15.08 release. Christoph Feck has a more detailed<br>
list that includes Extragear, but isn't organized by KDE Module here:<br>
<a href="http://developer.kde.org/~cfeck/portingstatus.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://developer.kde.org/~cfeck/portingstatus.html</a> .<br>
<br>
I took a quick stab at porting amor to Qt5/kf5 and it shouldn't be too<br>
hard, but the question is should it be ported at all? The previous<br>
maintainer hasn't touched it in quite some time. The code is X11<br>
specific, and the whole concept won't work on Wayland anyway because<br>
windows don't know about each other and can't position themselves.<br>
<br>
KTux has been ported to Qt5/kf5 but I don't see any way in plasma 5 to<br>
make it the screensaver. We only support images in the lock screen and<br>
kwin will only support the greeter used in<br>
plasma-workspace/ksmserver/screenlocker so if you run it it shows a<br>
nice window of tux flying around, but I don't think that's useful in<br>
today's screensaver less world somehow.<br>
<br>
KTeatime may still be useful, but if we are cleaning out kdetoys,<br>
maybe it should be moved to kdeutils so it isn't the lone application<br>
in a module?<br>
<br>
I'll ask sysadmin to make the above moves unless anyone objects within<br>
a couple of weeks. I would put ktux and amor into unmaintained (or<br>
playground? not sure which is more suitable) and stop releasing them<br>
in 15.12 and move kteatime to kdeutils.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
Jeremy<br>
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