proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:42, Alexander Neundorf a écrit:
> > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:53, Sune Vuorela a écrit:
> > > > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > > 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?
> > > >
> > > > A simple standard api for what? installations of scripts and
> > > > wallpapers and stuff, sure. there is the ghns things.
> > > >
> > > > For isntallation of compiled stuff, no.
> > >
> > > Not something related to packagekit or similar? Eh, IMHO there should
> > > be something like that if there isn't. With OBS and Co. compiled stuff
> > > is not that much different, you just get a variant tailored to your
> > > (hardware) profil. Can someone please empty my TODO list? :)
> > >
> > > > And I'm not sure there should be
> > > > such a thing.
> > >
> > > Hm. You don't agree that a user experience like
> > >
> > > 	"Sorry, missing X to do Y. Would you like to get X now for that?"
> > >
> > > is better than one à la
> > >
> > > 	"Na, no way to do Y."?
> >
> > I think Lubos proposed something like this "recently", i.e. at some point
> > last year here on this list.
>
> Others have done now and then as well, e.g., ahem, me ;) here a few years
> ago: http://markmail.org/message/xo2b4zw2ee6si6g2
>
> Oh, how cheap talk is :P

I think this might be related:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4232

Alex