Frameworks status for KDE Edu

[Filipe Saraiva]

On 27-12-2014 17:38, Inge Wallin wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have made a complete status review of all the applications in KDE Edu with 
> regard to porting to KDE Frameworks 5. The result is attached to this mail in 
> HTML format so should be easy to view.
>
> The result is somewhat better than I thought: most applications are already 
> ported and work well. But there are a few things that I would like to comment 
> on.
>
> 1. Artikulate, Kmplot, Kgeography, Blinken and Pairs are ported and could be 
> merged immediately. I don't see any reason why we have to wait until there is 
> no more kdelibs4support left before merging if the port works well. Having 
> both a frameworks and a master branch that should not really be touched is 
> more confusing. Are there any reason why we should not do that immediately?
>
> As a side note, I couldn't get Pairs to run, but that looked like something 
> missing around OpenGL in my driver rather than a porting problem.
>
> 2. Kalzium, Kstars, and KTouch are still using kdelibs4 and don't even have a 
> frameworks branch. I have heard some noice about doing or starting a port in 
> all of those applications (iirc) and I would like to see at least a branch in 
> them immediately. So the question is: is there any actual work done on any of 
> these in some private repository somewhere?
>
> 3. I consider GCompris to be part of KDE Edu nowadays - maybe Bruno would like 
> to comment whether that is right or wrong. But anyway, this is a bit of a 
> special case since it's an ongoing rewrite from a Gtk+ program. There is also 
> an intention to release the ported program to Android before any release for 
> the desktop. So is any Frameworks 5 related information even applicable here?
>
> 4. Marble seems to be another special case.  As far as I could determine, it's 
> actually ported to Qt5, but there is nothing in relation to Frameworks 5 that 
> I could see, except for a comment in the CMakeFile.txt that it should be done. 
> :)  Anyone from Marble that would like to comment?
>
> In conclusion I think we have come a very long way. Most of the ports are done 
> and a few need still to be merged.  Very encouraging, I'd say.
>

Cantor was ported to Qt5/KF5 but there are some critical bugs to be
fixed. We are planning the Qt5/KF5 version release in the next
Applications release.

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Filipe Saraiva
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