Fwd: Plasma 5.2 bits for kdereview

[Luigi Toscano]

Jonathan Riddell ha scritto:
> On 6 January 2015 at 15:23, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
> <mailto:luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Jonathan Riddell ha scritto:
>     > Updates on this..
>     >
>     > I plan to ask for Bluedevil and libbluedevil, libkscreen and kscreen,
>     > libmm-qt and ksshaskpass to be moved. I see some comments that the
>     > libraries may be used outside of Plasma but there's no problem with
>     > that happening, they don't quality for frameworks and they already get
>     > released with Plasma so it's just an update in projects.kde.org <http://projects.kde.org>
>     >
> 
>     That's the same point as baloo, discussed on kde-frameworks-devel right
>     now, then.
> 
>     I still disagree, from a logical point of view those libraries could be needed
>     both for Applications and Plasma "products". As you said they are not
>     frameworks, and I still think we need to investigate how to place this kind of
>     libraries. If you don't want to depend on libraries on extragear-libs, maybe a
>     new module? Again, it's the same as the baloo placement problem IMHO.
> 
> 
> Neither libkscreen nor libbluedevil not libmm-qt are used by anything outside
> Plasma currently.
But they could be in the future, they are general libraries and other desktops
or applications could look at them.

> 
> libkscreen and libmm-qt are already being released with Plasma so this just
> makes projects.kde.org <http://projects.kde.org> match reality.
> 
> Albert has said he's fine with KDE Applications depending on Plasma (I think)
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2015-January/021332.html
> 
> What problem does it create to release it with Plasma even if something else
> wants to use them?

My thoughts:
- logical issue: Plasma is a product (even if a bit special) at the same level
of other applications when looking at the general picture and having general
libraries (not desktop-specific libraries or components like polkit-qt, etc)
there just does not seem the right placement. A shared place for libraries is
then needed; see below.
- communication problems. We are trying to detach the different pieces of work
produced by the KDE community and having software dependending on "the
desktop" is going in the opposite way IMHO
> 
> Where would you put them and how would you get them released?

As I wrote, we miss something in the layer of "libraries based on Frameworks
which are not Frameworks but used by other programs", and we are a bit
incoherent. On one side we have some pure Qt libraries as "kdesupport", see
attica or phonon. Why not libmm-qt, which I suspect is pure Qt? On the other
side, kdesupport is not suited for libraries
Extragear-libs still means "stuff which have its own regular release
schedule", so I would go with that, unless people think that Applications and
Plasma can't depend on extragear-libs libraries, but then I would say that we
need another group. For now Baloo, which is a similar status, decided to go on
its own route, and it's in a special namespace which is not exactly the best
choice IMHO, because that name (kdelibs) has a special and defined meaning.

(having this thread called "plasma something" probably means that some
non-plasma-but-core people are not checking it and this does not help. Or not?
Please speak up!).

Ciao
-- 
Luigi