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[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 18 d'agost de 2012, a les 08:45:58, nihui va escriure:
> the kimpanel dbus specification used is the same, while the implementation
> in frontend is different kimpanel plasmoid use three level communication
> with input method framework, fcitx/ibus/scim <-> im glue <-> plasma
> dataengine <-> kimpanel and kimtoy, fcitx/ibus/scim <-> im glue <-> kimtoy
> im glue is a small app for bridging between native input method framework
> interface and kimpanel dbus interface, and it is the only piece of code
> currently shared You may even find that these im glues in kimpanel plasmoid
> are forked from kimtoy.
> 
> sharing these im glues does make sense, but it also means to use the same
> repo for hosting kimtoy and kimpanel plasmoid, and that is not possible
> unfortunately.

Well, you could also do a library, since that's what libraries are for, 
sharing code. Anyway I won't block kimtoy moving to extragear for this.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> best wishes,
> nihui
> 
> At 2012-08-17 04:55:30,"Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >El Dijous, 16 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:06:55, nihui va escriure:
> >> hi
> >> 
> >> Yes, we have kimpanel plasmoid in plasma-addons, and we have skim for
> >> scim
> >> in old kde3 days. kimtoy is technically the standalone version of
> >> kimpanel
> >> plasmoid with many additional features. Both kimtoy and kimpanel plasmoid
> >> are strictly not input method framework like ibus, they act as
> >> frontend(or
> >> panel) for the underlying input method frameworks. Users can still
> >> write/type using ibus built-in frontend without KDE ones, but some nice
> >> intergrations between KDE and input method frameworks will be missing,
> >> such
> >> as storing ibus settings in kconfig instead of gconf/dconf and consistent
> >> style in KDE environment, etc.
> >> 
> >> the benefits of kimtoy over the current kimpanel plasmoid includes:
> >> no dependence on a running plasma desktop, you can use it in other DE
> >> like
> >> xfce... kconfig intergration for ibus and scim
> >> very powerful theming support and customization
> >> more intergration, thumbnailers and strigi analyzers
> >
> >Is there any chance in sharing code between kimtoy and kimpanel plasmoid?
> >Or it doesn't make sense?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >  Albert
> >  
> >> best wishes,
> >> nihui