Notes on porting to Qt5

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Sebastian Sauer wrote:

> On 07/29/2013 05:12 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> * plugins
>> 
>> Sebastian Kuegler has a number of patches on reviewboard that make porting 
>> plugins from the old KDE style to the new Qt style a breeze. We need to 
>> investigate whether we can reuse that work without dragging in all of KF5 
>> or Qt 5.2.
>
> Where is the code?

kdelibs, branch origin/sebas/kplugins

>> * kdefakes
>> 
>> The kdefakes library as started by Sebastian Sauer needs be expanded to be 
>> more than a set of fake headers. for instance...
>
> Nah, there is plenty implementation for all things *really* required to run 
> (Coffice and Active) on Linux, Android, Sailfish, Windows, etc. Everything 
> else is optional imho. The question is how much functionality you *REALLY* 
> need for a Calligra QWidgets UI. I think shortcuteditor or 
> notifications-dialog are not the important things to lose time with atm. 
> Comment out till KF5.
>

Hm, ok -- then I guess it's time to update the kofake library in the qt5 
branch -- but I am sure there are things missing in the coffice version,
like kmessage.h, so we need to do that with a bit of care.

Boud