state of kdefx (again), BC exemption request

[Matthew Woehlke]

(I'm CC'ing kde-devel, if you have code that you know uses kdefx please 
read and offer comments if you have any.)

Casper Boemann and I were talking about KStyle and its various 
deficiencies (and how we can't technically address them any more due to 
the freeze) while working on the Oxygen style, which reminded me of a 
couple of things...

- As I understand, the major reason this library exists is because in 
KDE3 styles could not safely touch kdelibs.

- The library has, AFAIK, not had any major review, and has things like
gradient generators that appear to be obsolete in Qt4.

- People (I forget who) had previously expressed a desire to kill of the 
library.

I'd like to make a request to exempt this library from requirement to 
maintain BC in KDE 4.0 so that we have much more time to address the API 
and hopefully ultimately remove the library entirely (merging 
functionality we want to keep into kdeui or elsewhere, or possibly 
giving it new life as a more "traditional" KDE library perhaps in a 
different module). The "nice" way to do this is to make the library 
static so that it can still be used but without BC issues.

Thoughts? Other than styles, who is using the library? What parts of it 
are still needed (and what has been superseded by Qt)?

If we don't do something we are going to have a superfluous gradient 
maker for KDE4 lifetime :-).

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