overhaul of some kcm appearance

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 14 March 2009, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> because as is, from a random non-plasma application's perspective, the
> lib is more or less "librandomstuff" with very little useful features

a "plasma application" is any app that uses libplasma. so yes, if you don't 
have a need for the things in libplasma, then it's not useful to you. but 
that's a tautology, isn't it?

apps that don't have a gui won't find anything useful in libkdeui. same thing.

libplasma provides virtually *all* of the functionality found in plasma, 
krunner and amarok's context view, so it's hardly random or unuseful in the 
overall picture. it's just not useful to, say, ksnapshot or akregator or 
$OTHER_OBVIOUS_APP_EXAMPLE.

> taste, kdeui is already on the edge

if your views are conservative in that nature, then yes, i'm sure you won't 
like libplasma. more realistically, apps that have common needs should share 
code. which is what libplasma does.

> a webkit dependency is beyond evil.

depending on things that we need is hardly evil.

what i'm wondering is what, exactly, you're trying to achieve with your 
comments here? if you could help me understand what you're trying to achieve, 
then maybe we can find some common ground in that direction. otherwise this is 
a waste of our time.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20090316/7b9d5897/attachment.sig>