death to kdeaddons, long live extragear!

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Wed Aug 29 20:14:44 BST 2007


On Wednesday 29 August 2007 3:06:57 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all...
> 
> i'd like to propose that we kill kdeaddons for kde4 and instead move 
> everything worth keeping to extragear/. 
> 
> we will be releasing appropriately tagged items in extragear/ with each kde 
> release, so they will still get releases.
> 
> but this will do two things:
> 
> - eliminate a rather odd little duckling of a module
> - emphasize extragear better
> - give packages just one place to pick extra addons from (extragear) rather 
> than multiple
> 
> as an aside: even if this doesn't happen, plasma will not be using kdeaddons 
> for non-core plugins but extragear exclusively.
> 
> i can move things out of kdeaddons over the next two weeks if this gets 
> approved. it will also provide a good excuse to do some spring cleaning in 
> there =)
> 

hehe.. never knew there was such an app as KSig.
Learn something about KDE everyday.

I'm ok with your proposal.

-Allen




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