RFC: A Qt-only library in kdesupport

[Stephen Kelly]

Christoph Feck wrote:

> Am Thursday 13 August 2009 00:01:50 schrieb Stephen Kelly:
> 
>> Many classes in kdelibs are extensions of functionality provided by Qt,
>> but would be useful to any Qt using application
> 
> I don't like any attempt to further delay KDE adoption. Yes, there are
> many problems with KDE, especially with deployment on non-Linux, but the
> more reasons we give to developers for not using KDE, the less visibility
> KDE will get.

It's easier to get Qt onto mobile for example too. Remember, Qt developers are just KDE developers waiting to happen.

> 
> My personal position only.
> 
>> I think I've read that libplasma is largely Qt only
> 
> find kdelibs/plasma -exec grep \#include\ [\<\"][kK] {} \; | sort | uniq
> 
> (output has 68 lines, have fun "porting" :)

I'm not talking about porting plasma to Qt only, but specific classes like Plasma::Animator has a QGraphics* only api. That could be used in Qt only code if only there was a convenient place to get it from. Plasma::ExtenderItem is also mostly Qt only. That's from a 2 minute look at the library; I know little about plasma and QGV.

Steve.

> 
> Christoph Feck (kdepepo)