Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

> Am 21.10.2015 um 08:14 schrieb Christoph Cullmann:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> hat am 20. Oktober 2015 um 19:49 geschrieben:
>>>> Regarding dbus especifically, I see the problem in 2). You can bundle
>>>> it, but then if it's already ran by another process the other one will
>>>> have to be used, which is where the dbus mess starts.
>>> There is work in progress to provide dbus installations as standalone package or
>>> bundled with an application on Windows. See
>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92080. Version 2.18 of the
>>> umbrello installer [1] will have a bundled dbus-daemon providing an install
>>> path limited session bus, which is separated from the main session bus. An
>>> alternative will be to install a standalone dbus package [2] which can be used
>>> by single KDE applications installed by a separate installers. Each KDE
>>> application can be configured to use the bundled dbus or the standalone.
>> whereas I think that is great news to deploy stuff that really requires dbus,
>> actually, e.g. for the umbrello use case: why do I need it at all?g
> The last time I build umbrello with kf5 (version 5.11) dbus was required
> to run khelpcenter and open/save file dialogs and for remote control.
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win32:/KF511/openSUSE_13.1/noarch/mingw32-umbrello5-installer-2.18.99-4.1.noarch.rpm
> (you may open this rpm with ark of 7zip file manager to get the installer)
open/save stuff is fixed in KF5 master
But yes, khelpcenter (if it is shipped) might need fixing and remote control for sure.
That's the same state as for Kate ATM.

Greetings
Christoph

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