libgoya - possibly in kdelibs ?

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 10:15:08 Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Monday 14 January 2008 17:41:04 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I really know we should focus on 4.0.x and stability before
> >> smoking crack
> >> for 4.1. Anyway I have been doing some work for the Goya
> >> infraestructure,
> >> which is right now at playground/libs. It is kde-independant, and
> >> despite
> >> the kDebug() lines only depends on Qt.
> >>
> >> Since I'm quite new for this kind of things on the project, I
> >> would like to
> >> know some things:
> >>
> >> - Could it be possible to move the library from playground to
> >> kdelibs/kdeui/itemviews ?
> >>
> >> You may be wondering why. Here is my explanation:
> >>
> >> Goya is a framework for inserting controls into itemviews in a
> >> really easy
> >> and fast way. It now supports pushbuttons, comboboxes and only
> >> renders (not
> >> editable) line edits. Of course I will add without effort radio
> >> buttons and
> >> check boxes. This framework makes hell easy for the delegate to
> >> draw and
> >> make it easy to interact with those controls that Goya added (you
> >> can check
> >> out the tests at playground/libs/goya/tests). You just can use
> >> signals/slots for that.
> >>
> >> Now that I said the reason of its existence, I can say where it
> >> could be
> >> needed: for sure KPluginSelector (kdelibs/kutils) and kuiserver
> >> (kdebase/runtime).
> >>
> >> So, what do you think ? If we don't want it into kdelibs, we would
> >> need to
> >> make kdelibs depend in some kind of "goya library", that
> >> distributions
> >> should start to deploy (maybe on the meanwhile on kdesupport, if
> >> that makes
> >> sense). If we want it on kdelibs, could that be made for 4.1 ? The
> >> code is
> >> pretty tested and I think it works quite fine.
> >
> > No objections.
> > Apidox, techbase tutorials, coding standards (dpointers and all
> > that), etc
> > apply :)
>
> I get the impression from your email that you haven't actually looked
> at the module yet. Is that correct? If that is the case, why do you
> not object when you have no idea whether or not the module meets the
> criteria for inclusion to kdelibs?
>
> A quick search reveals that there are no techbase tutorials.

I should have been more explicit.
I meant that Rafael would need to provide those and have a review first.

I'm not saying libgoya can go in today -- I am saying that I don't object to 
libgoya going in, once the prerequisites have been met.