Moving kate into kdebase/apps

[Kleag]

Hello,

Myself, I use kate for a _lot_ more things than just coding. I use text (or 
XML) files very often, grouping them with sessions, etc. I really think that 
kate is better placed in an apps section than in a sdk one.

Just my 2 €c...

Kleag
Le mardi 20 février 2007 20:39, Christoph Cullmann a écrit :
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:08:09 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > kdebase/apps is better than just kdebase/, though i'm not sure that's the
> > best place for it.
> >
> > kwrite is a "simple" text editor shell around katepart while kate is a
> > full blown code editor with sidebars, plugins, multiple files, etc.
> > (though not an IDE), right? it seems to me that the logical place for
> > kate would be in kdesdk while kwrite would stay in kdebase.
>
> Yes, I am the same opinion. I thought, since we all talked about the
> framework/workspace/apps... stuff, that kwrite alone should be enough for
> the "basic" desktop which kdebase should provide.
>
> > right now kate is packaged with kdebase, though, so i'm not sure what
> > kind of implications that would have, if any, for packagers? i'm assuming
> > not much, but then i'm not a packager ;)
> >
> > but this would help keep the modules conceptually clearer and a minimal
> > install of a KDE workspace (libs+base) a bit more clean.
>
> I would have no probs with kdesdk.
> While moving stuff, any problems if I unite the kate plugins into
> kdesdk/kate/plugins, as the current seperation between the plugins in
> kdebase/apps/kate/plugins and kdeaddons/kate/plugins is arbitary?
> (beside that the most are development oriented and would fit kdesdk well,
> too)
>
> > i'm not sure how the kate team would feel about that move; IMHO it
> > doesn't relegate kate to any less of a significant part of KDE but helps
> > categorize it more accurately, much as we have media apps in
> > kdemultimedia despite how many people use them =)
>
> Yes :)
>
> cu
> Christoph

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