enabling workspace/kcontrol on windows

[Laurent Montel]

On lundi 14 mai 2007, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 14 May 2007, Laurent Montel wrote:
> > On Monday 14 May 2007 00:03:39 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I just compiled kdebase on win32 to be able to change the kde style to
> > > something more native than Plastik. Unfortunately this is impossible
> > > currently, because the whole workspace is disabled for win32.
> >
> > I moved kcontrol->style into kdebase/runtime/kcontrol, but a guy re-moved
> > it into kdebase/workspace I don't know why.
>
> That guy is me.
> I had to move style and krdb to workspace in r660995:
>
> "Move krdb and style together with colors and fonts since they share code
> (kdrb.cpp) - and fonts shares code with kfontinst. "If we really need some
> of those modules on Windows then we'll have to find a better solution
> [moving the whole lot to apps?]. "Meanwhile those things really belong
> together.
>
> The point is that we can't have code in runtime that depends on code in
> workspace, otherwise we'll never be able to package kdebase as three
> tarballs like we wanted to do.
>
> So the situation is:
>  style+colors+fonts depend on krdb.
>  fonts uses code from kfontinst.
> Both krdb and kfontinst are X11-only.
> How do we then move the non-X11-specific parts of the style (and colors and
> fonts) module out of the X11-specific workspace, while still keeping the
> X11-specific code in those dirs? We can only move the whole lot somewhere,
> and runtime doesn't sound right (those are not runtime dependencies of kde
> applications). Those are kcontrol modules and kcontrol is an app, so my
> suggestion would be to move it all to apps.

Ok I understand.
So I am ok to move all into apps.