libmm-qt/libnm-qt as KF5

[Jan Grulich]

Hi,

On Wednesday 09 of April 2014 07:20 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tuesday 08 April 2014 19:51:05 Lamarque Souza wrote:
> >  I understood that, I just do not know all the other things we need to do
> > 
> > to make NMQt/MMQt part of KF5. And yes, I agree in making NMQt/MMQt part
> > of
> > KF5. The other doubt I still have is  where _kde_add_platform_definitions
> > is defined. By what I could figure out it is not in ECM, so something else
> > is needed to parse the CMakeLists.txt file in current NMQt's framework
> > branch.
> 
> _kde_add_platform_definitions is available in ECM. So from your perspective
> it means ECM is the only extra dependency as stated several times.
> 
> > As for my questioning about merging NMQt/MMQt into plasma-nm repo is
> > because every time I argue that we should make them usable for non-KDE
> > users arguments like this appears: "I would be really interested how many
> > distributions would have it [NMQt] without Plasma NM.".

I meant that nobody would not know about them, but I didn't mean that they are 
not useful.

> > Now I am wondering
> > if I am the only one that still thinks NMQt/MMQt are useful for other
> > software besides Plasma NM.
> 
> Honestly, if you really think NMQt/MMQt are to be useful outside of
> plasma-nm, then KDE Frameworks is likely a good place for them, if not
> you'd better merge them in plasma-nm.
> 
> Personally I doubt they're useful outside of plasma-nm though. But that's
> your job as maintainer to pick a choice.
> 

I'm convinced that they could be useful for others, i.e ModemManagerQt could 
be used by KTp for sending sms (this was even implemented with the old version 
of MMQT). 

Cheers,
Jan

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Jan Grulich 
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