RFC: Creation of a new KDE SC module [kdeplugins]

[Dawit A]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:41 PM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dawit A <adawit at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> David and I have been discussing about resurrecting the now defunct
>> "kdeaddons" module as "kdeplugins" for a very specific purpose. We
>> want to house plugins of applications that are part of one of the
>> standard KDE SC modules in it. Only plugins for applications/libraries
>> in these main modules would be allowed into this new module. The
>> reason and the need for this are discussed in the links provided
>> below:
>>
>> http://lists.kde.org/?t=128563317500003&r=1&w=2 and
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#label/kde-core-devel/12b5808411a10e71
>>
>> I am sure there are other applications/frameworks/libraries that face
>> the same issues and would benefit from this... A possible structure
>> for the new module could be:
>>
>> kdeplugins
>>  |----- kdebase
>>       |----- konqueror
>>             |---- searchbar
>>             |---- ....
>>
>>  |---- <module-name>
>>        |----- <app-name>
>>               |---- <plugin>
>>
>> OR
>>
>> kdeplugins
>>  |----- konqueror
>>         |---- searchbar
>>         |---- ....
>>
>>  |----- <app-name>
>>         |---- <plugin>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions, comments, objections are all welcome...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dawit A.
>>
>
> I think there is something wrong with your second link.  It isn't
> working for me, at least.

Indeed. That was the wrong link. Here is the right one:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=128567213818989&w=2

> There was also discussion of putting optional kwin plugins somewhere.
> If that isn't what your second link is about, then it may be something
> else that can go there.  There is also a possibility of putting
> optional plasma applets there, perhaps.

No the link was about the discussion David and I had regarding the
konq-plugins. However, the kwin plugins would be a perfect candidate
for that module...