Where to put kwayland integration plugins

[Martin Graesslin]

On Monday, June 6, 2016 11:26:58 AM CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi framework-developers,
> > 
> > in Plasma we have a repository called kwayland-integration. It provides a
> > plugin for:
> > * KWindowSystem
> > * KIdleTime
> > 
> > using the KWayland client API. Thus it makes these frameworks functional
> > on
> > windowing system Wayland.
> > 
> > I want to move the plugins into frameworks and are wondering how to do
> > that
> > and where to move them to.
> > 
> > I see the following options:
> > 1. Integrate directly into kwindowsystem and kidletime
> > 2. Merge them into frameworks-integration
> > 3. Create a new framework kwayland-integration
> > 4. create a new framework "kwindowsystem-wayland" and "kidletime-wayland"
> > 
> > Option 1 is I think an absolute no-no as it would turn kwindowsystem and
> > kidletime from tier 1 to tier 2 and that would affect a huge amount of
> > other frameworks. For everything which is not in tier 1, I think it's the
> > way to go.
> > 
> > Option 2 is something I don't want to do as that would combine windowing
> > system integration code with random other stuff and would result in weird
> > dependencies. (To use KIdleTime on Wayland one needs X11 and Phonon?)
> > 
> > The same actually also applies to Option 3, though it is just two
> > frameworks and all dependencies would be tier 1.
> > 
> > So personally I think option 3 or option 4 are the way to go.
> > 
> > What do you think? Better ideas?
> 
> I agree ideally it's 3 or 4. Where do you have it now? Are they
> already separate repositories? If so, just moving them to frameworks
> could make sense.

they are currently part of plasma in a dedicated repository called "kwayland-
integration". Each of the two plugins is in a dedicated source directory, so 
both option 3 and 4 could be easily done.

Cheers
Martin
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