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

[Mark Gaiser]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6:03:47 PM CET Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > I thought the frameworkintegration plugin was exactly that and usable for
> > any platform if they wish to use it.
> > Or is my assumption wrong and is it really only for Plasma and should
> > others stay away from it?
>
> well obviously it's only for plasma as it's bound to env variables set by
> startkde. And in 4.x time the qpt plugin was in kde-workspace repo, see:
>
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-workspace.git&a=blob&h=4f67cc55104fe1081b05d381e9516e0215f8e24a&hb=1b97d4427257120e305408404bff5ec6be0b65a9&f=qguiplatformplugin_kde
> %2Fqguiplatformplugin_kde.cpp
>
> >
> > My assumption can very well be wrong, but then i think we need to have a
> > "base" frameworkintegration that every app dev can use with or without
> > plasma. And a plasma specific version that integrates more in plasma i
> > suppose.
>
> I don't think it's anything an app developer should care about. It's
> integration, that's not something the app developer picks - otherwise the
> app
> breaks on integrating with other platforms.
>
> > I don't care for that either. It's logical and to be expected.
> > I do care when i want to use the KF5 filedialog and need to install
> plasma
> > (which has absolutely nothing to do with the dialog) just to get it.
> > With "use" i mean the file open dialog, not the ones you can just call
> from
> > the C++ side of things.
> >
> > And i definitely do not want to make a QPA just to have that working.
>
> Well you have to. The file dialog is part of integration. If you want to
> have
> a specific integration you need to provide a QPT (not QPA) plugin.
> Application
> developers must keep away from that.
>
> Please also read up on the topic of why KFileDialog got removed from our
> API.
>
> Cheers
> Martin


I see what you mean, i understand your opinion, but... I just don't like it
for all the reasons given earlier.
I might be a minority here, not many people are responding besides Aleix
and myself.

Lets both take a step back and let some other opinions flow in.
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