Kirigami in Frameworks

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 8:58 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On lundi 5 juin 2017 14:42:47 CEST Marco Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> The Kirigami component set always was targeted to be eventually released as
>> a framework, ideally tier 1. since a framework must depend at most from 2
>> Qt releases before the current one, it couldn't be released there yet. Now
>> that Qt 5.9 is released
>
> Given the LTS nature of Qt 5.6 I'd like to keep 5.6 as a base requirement for the
> other frameworks for a bit longer if possible, but this doesn't prevent kirigami
> from requiring Qt 5.7.
> This Qt version difference creates an issue for the CI though, as can be
> seen at https://build.kde.org/job/kirigami%20master%20stable-kf5-qt5/

Please check the new CI at https://build-sandbox.kde.org/ for the
current state of affairs.
As the requirements around Qt 4 and some other things have now been
sorted I intend to switch it over to become production in the next 24
hours.

>
>> i would like to propose to move Kirigami in
>> frameworks, to be relased in the main release cycle, and stop standalone
>> releases from extragear.
>>
>> It strictly depends just from Qt stuff, so should be tier 1 (at runtime it
>> can use optional styles that use features from Plasma, tough not having
>> plasma installed doesn't touch its functionality in any part, if this ends
>> up being a problem, i can move that style into plasma-integration)
>
> I just cleaned up the toplevel CMakeLists.txt a bit, but I found an issue there:
> it checks for KF5Declarative_FOUND but doesn't do a find_package for that component, so this looks pretty useless.
> Since DESKTOP_ENABLED is on by default, what's the point of that if(KF5Declarative_FOUND AND THEME STREQUAL "System") ?
>
> I noticed that DESKTOP_ENABLED installs a file called styles/org.kde.desktop,
> which matches a runtime error I've seen for some time now, e.g. at QtCreator startup:
> QtCreator(12888)/default QQuickControlSettings1::QQuickControlSettings1: WARNING: Cannot find style "org.kde.desktop" - fallback: "/d/qt/5/kde/build/qtbase/qml/QtQuick/Controls/Styles/Desktop"
>
> I enabled BUILD_EXAMPLES and got a nice example "kirigami2gallery" built as a result, but why is it under the android subdirectory?
> (The good thing about this example is now I finally have an idea what kirigamy is about. The name doesn't really say much ;))
>

Cheers,
Ben

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> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
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