Draft split for qpt plugin from frameworkintegration

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> following up on [1] I have prepared a split of frameworkintegration to move
> the QPT plugin into a dedicated repository. You can find it in [2]. Please have
> a look at the split repo to verify that it looks fine. If everything is OK,
> I'll request a new repo from sysadmins.
>
> Some general notes
> * new repo name: plasma-integration
> * new plugin name: PlasmaDesktopPlatformTheme
> * new src folder name: src/plasma-desktop-platformtheme
>
> Explaining the name changes:
> The plugin is renamed to not conflict on install with the existing plugin from
> frameworkintegration and also incorporating future changes Marco pointed out:
> we need a different QPT plugin for mobile.
>
> How to remove the plugin from frameworkintegration:
> After the split we cannot remove it from frameworkintegration yet as that
> would break setups on the next framework release. Given that I plan to only
> phase it out: Introduce a cmake option to build and install it, which defaults
> to true till at least Plasma 5.6 is released. Afterward swapping the default
> to false, with a big fat warning and keeping it like that for at least half a
> year. Then remove it. We don't provide any guarantees for it, so we can remove
> it, but I want to keep the impact small.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
> [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2015-December/
> 029234.html
> [2] kde:scratch/graesslin/platform-integration (https://quickgit.kde.org/?
> p=scratch%2Fgraesslin%2Fplasma-integration.git )

I have my doubts that we want a different QPT for desktop and mobile.
If we want to provide any convergence we need to strive to have the
same on both platforms.

Aleix