XWayland Video Bridge in kdereview

[Neal Gompa]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 7:09 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 10:01 AM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 10:00 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
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>> > I got this compiling on neon unstable.  Our kpipewire is qt6 so I'm not sure how that affects it.  I don't have a way to test it quickly though.
>> > https://build.neon.kde.org/job/jammy_unstable_neon-packaging_xwaylandvideobridge/
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>> The Qt 6 port is still ongoing:
>> https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge/-/merge_requests/11
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>> > How come it's in the system group on invent if you want it to be part of Plasma?
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>> To be honest, the invent groups are a mystery to me.
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> That is of some degree of concern that you don't understand the groupings.
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> For the most part the groups are intended to reflect to an extent how the software relates to each other. You will find all of the Educational software under Education for instance, and all Games in Games.
> Likewise, applications for handling images and other similar content are in Graphics, those that deal with video and audio are in Multimedia and libraries for use by other developers are in Libraries.
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> All fairly straightforward I would have hoped.
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> The reason for the placement of the XWayland Video Bridge comes back to the initial ticket that requested it be moved from a personal repository - which you filed Aleix.
> This was targeting Graphics, which is clearly inappropriate as it would have put it alongside Krita and Digikam. For want of a better place as it was a bit of infrastructure / behind the scenes tooling it was therefore put in System.
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> There was never any mention in the ticket that it was going to be exclusive to Plasma and not usable outside of a Plasma setting, hence why that was not considered.
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It is supposed to be useful outside of KDE Plasma too, so that
assumption is correct.


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