kdelibs splitting: looking back at april and going forward

[Kevin Ottens]

On Sunday 06 May 2012 18:41:31 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > * kidletime, the only one not started, somewhat independent though, Dario
> > is the maintainer.
> 
> I notice that this one uses a lot of X11.
> 
> Is porting from xlib to xcb part of considering something like this 'done'?
> KWindowSystem still uses xlib, and was moved out of staging, presumably you
> think the answer is no?

Correct, the answer is "no".
 
> Is it a goal of frameworks to port from xlib to xcb? (I have no idea about
> X11 stuff, so I really don't know)

It can't be a goal of "KDE Frameworks" IMO. It should be the goal of the 
individual frameworks... beside, one of the goals being portability, whenever 
possible each framework should be encouraged to work on more than one platform 
(Windows, Mac, Wayland...).

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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