proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 20:14, Alexander Neundorf a écrit:
> 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

Oh, nice, missed that before, thanks for the pointer, Alex :)

Indeed, that is pretty related. Hm, might be an interesting GSoC task to merge 
this with DrKonqi's debug packages loading, Phonon's new codec pulling and all 
the other GHNS/OCS related stuff... so at some not to distant time the 
KTextEditor example can be changed to code with a better user experience :)

Cheers
Friedrich
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