libmm-qt/libnm-qt as KF5

[Lamarque Souza]

Hi,

Sure I think they are, I am asking all those questions about dependencies
and implications of adding the libraries to KF5 because of that too. I just
want to make sure the other developers still think the same. I did not make
that decision alone back in 2011 in Madrid.

I think they are useful for embedded programs that use NetworkManager to
connect. Sharing MMQt between Plasma NM and KDE Telepathy is also a good
example. Using dbus-send for creating NetworkManager connections used to be
very troublesome because of the settings parsing code required to
send/retrieve the connection settings to/from NetworkManager. Creating a
small program using NMQt is simpler since we already implement that parsing
code. There is even an example in libnm-qt/examples/createconnection about
that.

Ok, so let's move on. NMQt/MMQt are going to be part of KF5, I will try to
compile the framework branch next weekend and see what is still needed to
be done to make that happen.

Thanks to all for answering my questions.

Lamarque V. Souza

KDE's Network Management maintainer

http://planetkde.org/pt-br


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> 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.". 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.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
>
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>
>
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