Move KDED out of frameworks?

[Alex Merry]

On 27/03/14 22:25, Àlex Fiestas wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> First of all sorry for sending this email so late in the release process, but 
> today has been the first day in months that I have been able to work fully 
> concentrated on Frameworks.
> 
> KDED is a weird framework, while it is a solution it is still really tied to 
> what was once known as KDE, just to mention a few things:
> 
> -It always registers org.kde.kded5 in the bus, allowing only 1 instance
> -It plays a role in startkde startup sequence
> -It checks for KDE session for loading or not some modules
> -Manages sycoca freshness
> -Integrates with ksplash
> -...
> 
> So for the moment I'd like to move KDED into kde-workspace (not into the repo 
> but in the git structure) until we clean and remove all ties to KDE and make 
> it more of a solution for any desktop.
> 
> Since it does  not install any header (kdbusaddons does it instead) we won't 
> break anything with it.
> 
> What do you think?

In principle, I agree.  In practice, a lot of our frameworks have a
runtime dependency of some sort on it.[0]

Alex


[0]: http://lxr.kde.org/search?v=kf5-qt5&_filestring=&_string=kded5