KDE Platform Profiles

[Rodrigo Belem]

My 2 cents:

* Split the libraries into smaller ones. This way we will not need
build twice the same bunch of code.
* Add the possibility to libraries and apps to build out the tree,
e.g. kdm, plasma-desktop and others build outside the
kdebase/workspace
* Maintain the idea of profiles. It will be better for developers test
their changes.



On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On April 15, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Markus wrote:
>> > Am Montag 12 April 2010 17:23:28 schrieb Parker Coates:
>> > > Why not just call the middle profile "Netbook" or maybe even "Mid
>> > > range devices"?
>> >
>> > "Mid range" is always relative. Today's mid range is low end in a year or
>> > so.
>>
>> maybe we can ditch the hardware it targets at all,
>> so "KDElibs full" "KDElibs light" and "KDElibs mobile essentials" editions
>> they sound quite catchy :p
>
> at the end of the day they are just names. we should probably be spending more
> of our discussion energy on the more important topics like how to deal with
> api variance between the profiles. that those profiles have names like
> "desktop", "tablet" and "mobile" is almost inconsequential. the nice thing
> about the form factor related names is that it gives everyone a general idea
> of the intended target hardware profile of that software profile. but we can
> always change them later quite easily.
>
> iow, i'd suggest putting a cork in this particular part of the discussion and
> moving on :)
>
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