libmm-qt/libnm-qt as KF5

[Lamarque Souza]

Ok, so let's go make a better NMQt/MMQt :-)

Lamarque V. Souza

KDE's Network Management maintainer

http://planetkde.org/pt-br


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Jan Grulich
> Red Hat Czech, s.r.o
> jgrulich at redhat.com
>
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