obsolete stuff

[C. Boemann]

On Tuesday 17 April 2012 16:57:42 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Here's a quick list of stuff in calligra that I am fairly sure is
> unmaintained and won't be maintained any time soon. I would propose
> to remove all of this and create a wiki page that lists what was
> removed in which commit, so people who are interested can always get
> it back. Right now, it's often a maintenance burden and a user burden,
> since the user gets stuff in the gui that's not usable.
> 
> Additions and corrections are welcome.
> 
> Filters:
> 
> generic_wrapper (a filter that could use a python or perl script to do the
> filtering)
> xsltfilter (need Qt3 support, unmaintained since 2003)
> 
> Maybe also liboofilter, if that is used nowhere anymore
> 
> karbon:
> 
> filter that haven't been ported since 2006
> 
>   ai
>   kontour
>   xcf
>   msod
>   oodraw
> 
> kchart:
> 
>    svg (needs Qt3 support
> 
> kformula:
> 
>    entire set of filters, none have been build since 2006
> 
> stage:
> 
>   svg
>   genericimageexport
>   words
>   ooimpress
>   magicpoint
>   kpr
>   ooppt
> 
> sheets:
> 
>   all filters are compiled; are they all still usable?
> 
> words
> 
>    all the filters that only know kwd (whoever thought that making filters
> write
>    to a file would make the filters more maintainable than linking to the
> apps
>    internals was mistaken -- it only means the filters compile while being
> useless)
> 
>    mswrite
>    html
>    latex
>    amipro
>    applixword
>    docbook
>    kword1.3
>    oowriter
>    palmdoc
>    wml
>    abiword
> 
> 
> Plugins:
> 
>    commentshape -- is this available in any application?
>    musicshape -- Mek, are you still maintaining this?
>    paragraphtool (great idea, unmaintained, does not compile)
>    reporting/shape -- unfinished
>    scan (rc files for krita and stage, is shown in neither)
>    treeshape -- doesn't work and unmaintained
> 
> 
> Tools:
> 
>     maybe mobile and koabstraction -- neither is used in real life anymore
> since the Maemo
>       platform is dead and we have Calligra Active instead.
>     kthesaurus -- unmaintained since 2002
> 
> 
> Krita
> 
>     colorspaces/lms_f32 -- not compiled for a long time now
>     extensions/backgrounds -- was unfinished
>     extensions/bracketing2hdr -- commented out for a long time
>     extensions/scripting -- not maintained (my fault!) since 2006
>     extensions/extensionsmanager -- unfinished
>     extensions/painterlyframework -- unmaintained
>     extensions/together -- looks like an unimplemented stub
>     filters/bumpmap -- we've got phong bumpmap now
>     tools/tool_curves -- good ideas, but not ported in 2006
> 
> 
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Of those I only think a few are somewhat important to keep around in the hope 
they may become maintained if easier to spot:

.ai (adobe illustrator ->karbon)

musicshape

The rest can easily be removed. possibly with a list and hash in our wiki so 
interested people can check it out.