Where to put kglobalacceld?

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Mon Apr 7 09:50:22 UTC 2014


On Monday 07 April 2014 21:20:19 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Àlex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 04 April 2014 15:41:07 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> >> 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.> 
> > I would put it in a separate repo just to make sure distributions do not
> > add plasma-workspace as a dependency of kglobalaccel (which will mean
> > that application developers will run away from the dependency).
> > 
> > What about kglobalaccel-runtime ?
> 
> Frameworks has gone well overkill with the desire to split everything
> into separated repositories.
> Such a repository makes no sense.
> 
> If this is such a problem, then kglobalaccel (the framework) should
> gain backends for Windows, Mac, Other DE, etc. integration and
> kglobalacceld is merely the implementation used in a Plasma workspace.

Yes, that's exactly the situation we should aim at.

Regards.
-- 
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