"kde5" or "kf5" ?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 17 February 2013, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2013 17:23:46 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2013-02-16, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> > > _set_fancy(LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR  "${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}/kde5/libexec")
> > 
> > I still don't see a reason for a *shared* libexec directory. libexec is
> > implementation details of specific libraries, just like one shouldn't
> > mess around with each others private's in the code, one also shouldn't
> > mess around with other's libexec bits.
> > 
> > so libfoo's libexec should be lib_install_dir/foo/libexec
> 
> I like this solution. It answers my long-lasting question about why there
> isn't a standardized libexec path (so that QStandardPaths::findExecutable)
> can look into it. If there isn't a standard path, then we might as well
> split it per lib indeed.
> 
> Any volunteer for porting the current uses of LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR
> everywhere in kdelibs-frameworks (both in cmakelists.txt and in code)?

I'll have a look (if nobody else is faster).

> Then we can get rid of the above variable.
> 
> > > _set_fancy(XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR
> > > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/kde5" )
> > 
> > I'm also a bit unsure about this one. Sure it is nice to avoid path
> > conflicts with other applications hogging the same desktop file names,
> > but from the different end of things: if things does hog the same
> > desktop file name, the content of the file is probably going to be so
> > similar that everyone wants to know about it and ensure that the content
> > is different enough.
> 
> Yeah, and this has always created compatibility problems IMHO (with other
> DEs, due to kate.desktop vs kde4-kate.desktop vs kde4/kate.desktop).
> 
> Let's remove the /kde5 then.
> 
> This leaves the "kde5" in front of "services" and "servicetypes". A subdir
> is necessary there, to separate kde4-based from KF5-based plugins.
> But IIRC Kévin convinced me some time ago to say kf5 instead of kde5.
> My thinking was "any app will want to install stuff there, so it's not kf5-
> specific", but this is about adding files for use by the KF5 kservices
> framework, so why not.
> 
> Executive summary: it's "kf5" everywhere.

Ok.

Alex