[Important] Breaking change - Changing framworks lib and package names

David Faure faure at kde.org
Wed Dec 11 17:12:21 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 11 December 2013 14:12:38 Alex Merry wrote:
> On 11/12/13 13:43, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> >  * KF5KIO
> >  * KDED**
> >  * KF5KCMUtils
> >  * KF5Kross
> >  * KDEWidgets***
> >  * KF5KHtml
> >  * KF5KDE4Support
> > 
> > All the changes now live in kde:clones/kdelibs/mklapetek/kdelibs
> > --branch lib_prefix - this is the branch that I will merge to frameworks.
> > 
> > Kevin, David, others, ok with you?
> > 
> > **) KDED is actually not a framework in a sense, I'd like to propose to
> > move it to runtime later on
> 
> Well, as I understand it, we're not really planning to have a "runtime"
> module at all.

Exactly.

>  It could potentially be viewed as a more "tier4" sort of
> framework, given how geared it is to the workspaces.

Well, it's a hard runtime dependency of many frameworks.
But yeah, it's runtime only, no API.

> > ***) These are the Qt Designer widgets, no need to tinker with it at all
> 
> I like Kevin's suggestion in an earlier thread[0] to rename kdewidgets
> to kf5designerplugin.

Yes. Or KF5WidgetsPlugin, at least. It's really confusing otherwise, one might 
think it's a collection of widgets, like KF5WidgetAddons is.

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