RFC: split platformtheme plugin from frameworkintegration and move to kde/workspace

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> based on the discussion in [1] I propose that we split out platformtheme
> plugin from frameworkintegration into a dedicated repository and move it to
> kde/workspace to be released together with Plasma 5.6.
>
> The main reasoning is that this plugin only gets loaded with env variables set
> in startkde anyway, which makes it a Plasma (Desktop) specific plugin. It's
> about integrating Qt application into Plasma and by that pretty useless for
> anything outside Plasma. Moving it to Plasma has in my opinion some advantages
> as we can better synchronize the release cycle and also allow us to depend on
> libraries provided by workspace [2].
>
> I'd like to get some feedback on the proposal and if this gets positive
> feedback, I'll look into performing the split.
>
> Best Regards
> Martin Gräßlin
>
> [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2015-November/
> 029022.html
> [2]  e.g. I need a dependency to KWayland, which is currently not yet possible
> due to KWayland not yet being moved to frameworks.

+1 I think it's a good idea.

Aleix