Moving KDE Telepathy to kdenetwork

[Martin Klapetek]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:

> On 2015-02-02, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another part that KDE Telepathy needs is KAccounts and we'd like
> > to move that one too, probably to kde-runtime but there seems to be
> > some disagreements of the purpose of kde-runtime. KAccounts is
>
> I'm pretty sure that everything in kde-runtime is only for kdelibs. in
> Frameworks, everything has been moved into the framework it is a part
> of.
>
> KAccounts sounds mostly like a network thing to me, at least so far. If
> it becomes more than a network accounts thing, maybe it should become a
> framework ?
>

At this point it's really about the KCM and the kded module, doesn't
sound too frameworky to me...


> > [1] KDE Telepathy repos are:
> >  ktp-accounts-kcm
> >  ktp-approver
> >  ktp-auth-handler
> >  ktp-call-ui*
> >  ktp-common-internals
> >  ktp-contact-list
> >  ktp-contact-runner
> >  ktp-desktop-applets
> >  ktp-filetransfer-handler
> >  ktp-kded-module
> >  ktp-send-file
> >  ktp-text-ui
>
> would this also be a time to maybe reconsider if one went a bit
> overboard with the original repository splitting?


This follows the upstream Telepathy philosophy (and hey, also unix), where
everything is fully standalone component and can work without the others.

Also kinda follows the frameworks, this way anyone can pick the component
that they need/want (like the auth handler or filetransfer handler) and not
have
to drag the whole stuff.

Personally I find the structure like that better (as someone who works with
the code everyday); these days everything is/can be scripted anyway.


> Having a libkdetelepathyinternalsprivate as a *public* available library
> somehow
> smells like a bit wrong to me.
>

Right, this has been one of the #1 goals back in the times, to have this
a proper public library. But everyone from the original team is now gone,
raising the question wasn't really a success [1]. But I agree this should
be done.


> > *) ktp-call-ui is not yet ported and will most probably be dropped from
> > the 15.04 release
>
> So that one is staying in ... playground ... so far?
>

Extragear.

[1] - http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-telepathy/2014-October/012250.html

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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