QML: a packagers nightmare. Assistance please.

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

(forgot to cross-post kde-devel/distributions)

Hi,

that WorkspaceComponents is used for a ShadowedLabel which is literally 
one QML file with a Label and a DropShadow. KWin could just not use that 
(and build its own) and we’d resolve the issue.

Cheers

Kai Uwe
 >  From what I am seeing this patch causes KWin to import a qml module 
that lives
 > in plasma-workspace
 >
 > import org.kde.plasma.workspace.components 2.0 as WorkspaceComponents
 >
 > At the same time plasma-workspace build depends on KWin due to the 
need of the
 > DBus xml files.
 >
 > So the situation right now is that plasma-workspace build depends on 
KWin and
 > KWin has a runtime dependency on plasma-workspace.
 > I think it's not a full cycle since installing plasma-workspace does 
not need
 > anything from KWin but maybe it can cause problems for distributions?
 >
 > David
 >
 >