proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Tue Feb 1 17:38:12 GMT 2011


Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 16:43, Maksim Orlovich a écrit:
> > erf; two dependencies in kdelibs on KTextEditor. ok, that makes it a no
> > go then ... hm.. looking at it, only khtml has a build-time dependency
> > on it. if
> > the texteditor part isn't available (or the source of the crash even? :)
> > what
> > does the debugger do at that point?
> 
> Pop up an error message and abort execution, as it expects it to be
> part of kdelibs.
> Which is coincidentally very similar to what KTextEditor tutorials
> suggest --- see
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Kate/KTextEditor_Example
> (except it needs katepart in specific)

Uh, that is old-fashioned. Should instead ask the user whether she wants to 
install the proper text editor module. Isn't there some simple standard api 
for that these days?

Cheers
Friedrich
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