KParts and the Qt5->Qt6 transition

[Carl Schwan]

On Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:51:20?PM CET Nicolas Fella wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> the transition of many apps to Qt6 provides some challenges for apps
> producing and consuming KParts.
> 
> KParts are implemented as Qt plugins and as such are specific to the Qt
> version they are built against. In other words, a KPart built against
> Qt5 cannot be loaded by an app using Qt6 and vice versa.
> 
> Since some parts are used by a variety of apps this is causing problems.
> When we last discussed this problem the consensus was "Port as many
> things as possible and see where we are at then". Now we are approaching
> a point where we need to take stock and decide what to do.
> 
>   There's several cases to consider:
> 
> 1) Applications using their own parts without external users. This
> happens in PIM where e.g. kmailpart is only used by KMail and Kontact.
> No problem here
> 
> 2) Applications loading specific parts from other applications. These
> are easy enough to search for. We have the following cases:
> 
> .....
> 
> okularpart (Okular is in the process of getting ported):
> 
> - kile (no Qt6 port)
> 
> - kbibtex (no Qt6 port)

It looks like kbibtex was ported two days ago. Would it be possible to have a 
gitlab issue or wiki page to keep track of the changes? This also let people 
know where help is needed.

Cheers,
Carl