DataSource and DataEngine documentation unavailable

[Adam Fontenot]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM Amelia Harris <ameliaaharris2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> so whats the deal with that, im currently using the WaybackMachine to view the pages, is there a reason why they were removed? I cannot find any documentation for either datasource or dataengine on api.kde.org. These two pages are missing, and are available on the internet archive:
> https://api.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/html/classPlasma_1_1DataEngine.html
> https://api.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/html/classPlasma_1_1DataSource.html
>
> have these been removed or just moved, and haven't had a redirect set up?

Hi Amelia,

I had the same question a while back and unfortunately didn't get any
responses:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2024-February/002460.html

My understanding is that support for these features was deprecated as
part of KF6 and no longer supposed to be used for new development, but
it's not always clear what the intended replacement is supposed to be.
In general if you have legacy code you can use the Plasma5Support
library, which appears briefly in the documentation here:
https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/widget/porting_kf6/#new-plasma5support-library

Sorry if that's not super helpful, this is just what my experience was
when porting an applet to KF6.


Best,
Adam