Where to put kglobalacceld?

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2014-04-04 11:10 GMT-03:00 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
> On Friday 04 April 2014 16:06:32 Aleix Pol wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > similar as to what we already have with DrKonqi moving kglobalacceld from
>> > kde-
>> > runtime into the globalaccel framework would significantly raise the tier
>> > and
>> > dependencies. At the moment KGlobalAccel is a tier1 framework.
>> >
>> > The runtime component though depends on:
>> > * KF5::GlobalAccel
>> > * KF5::KCMUtils
>> > * KF5::I18n
>> > * KF5::XmlGui
>> > * KF5::WindowSystem
>> > * KF5::DBusAddons
>> > * KF5::Notifications
>> > * KF5::KIOWidgets
>> > * KF5::Crash
>> >
>> > Even if we consider that some are probably not needed it would at least
>> > become
>> > tier2.
>> >
>> > Given that kglobalaccel is only intended for the kde-workspaces anyway my
>> > suggestion is to move it into plasma-workspace repository instead of
>> > merging
>> > with the framework. Please note that with Wayland it will be extremely
>> > difficult to provide a generic globalaccel anyway (no global keylogger
>> > like in
>> > X11 possible) and my plan is to implement the interface in KWin.
>> >
>> > Opinions?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Martin
>>
>> In that case, I'd suggest moving it to plasma-workspace, but then we'll
>> have to make sure to make it explicit that KGlobalAccel is not a portable
>> framework, rendering components depending on it not portable (with emphasis
>> on KXmlGui) to platforms not supported by Plasma (or KWin).
>>
>> Not having a functional KGlobalAccel on Gnome sounds quite a regression to
>> me though...
>
> it already says so in http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/List
>
> I honestly have no idea whether it works on other X11 desktops and how it
> behaves in case of conflicting global shortcuts by other desktops.

KDE4 on Windows runs a kglobalaccel.exe. I'd welcome getting rid of
the daemon on Windows, it should be possible to implement the
functionality in-process. I don't know if the global accelerator
functionality currently works on Windows, with or without the daemon.

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Nicolás