Making dbus optional in Calligra

[Sebastian Sauer]

On 02/07/2012 08:54 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 7 February 2012 20:34, Sebastian Sauer<mail at dipe.org>  wrote:
>> On 02/07/2012 03:09 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not sure about the plugin idea. Plugins are good if there are
>>>> alternative means implemented supporting the same interface - here the
>>>> generic local communication.
>>>> Is that the case here? How about complexity that would not pay off?
>>>
>>> Compile switches tend to bitrot -- suddenly a particular option no longer
>>> compiles or works because nobody is actually using that option anymore.
>>
>> We have at least Windows, OSX and Android as user. On those platforms dbus
>> would be disabled per default. Also Linux-users may decide to disable dbus
>> in Calligra per default too (I certainly would cause it's just not needed
>> for my use-cases). So, I do not think that option could bitrot.
> +1 and thanks for the extensive pro/cons list.
> I would say this very decision belong to people that do the deployment
> and/or integration work, not users.
> Let's start to think this way: real users pray for sane defaults not
> for the hell of choices then did not want. [1]
> Integrators want control but then - they can typically make choices at
> compile^wdeployment time.
>
> MSTEAHTP (Make simple things easy, and hard things possible)
>
> PS: I wish my response would be taken as more generic. I remember how
> much work it took me to port most of the Calligra plugins
> infrastructure to Qt4 from Qt3. The extra runtime layer/plugins
> translates to extra error-prone area...

Plugins and mimetypes would be the next steps.

The just in kde-frameworks introduced libqmimetypes solves our 
mimetypes-problem so it seems :)

Plugins are certainly harder. Do we need a cache or would be an 
alternate backend be enough that just reads the plugin-informations from 
desktop-files on the fly without storing them in a cache (what would 
remove all the need for sycoca)?