[Kde-games-devel] Freeze in 6 weeks

[Ian Wadham]

Hi Jeremy,

On 27/01/2015, at 8:39 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Just a thought, but I bet porting those away from KApplication will remove the dependency on kded. Kanagram and KHangman have both done that at least.

KMahjongg for KF5 on Apple OSX needs kded and friends in order to do
file I/O (Save and Load), but it is already using QApplication.

However, it has not yet been ported away from kde4support, see [1].  Does
the dependency on kded and friends go away when there is no more need
of kde4support in an app?

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Marko Käning <mk-lists at email.de> wrote:
> Hi Inge,
> 
> On 26 Jan 2015, at 20:57 , Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > What?  I thought one of the big advantages with kde frameworks 5 was that we
> > didn't need to run all the kde infrastructure on other platforms.

Is that documented somewhere?

It will lift a great weight from the KDE-Mac group's shoulders if we do not
have to worry about kdeinit5, klauncher5 and kded5 on Apple OS X.  Their
predecessors are the source of several problems in KDE 4 apps on OS X,
many of which are unsolved.

Does anyone here know *for sure* about this?

> yep, that has been somewhat surprising for me as well…
> 
> I’d love to avoid these for such simple games, but for some reason they seem to be needed. :(
> 
> E.g. KDE-EDU’s KGeography, KAnagram and KHangman do NOT actively call them at least! :-)

Cheers, Ian W.

[1] https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Games/kdegame_apps_porting_kf5_status