[Kde-games-devel] Freeze in 6 weeks

[Jeremy Whiting]

Ah, maybe it's the use of kio :/ Is that strictly required for kmahjongg to
save and load files? Isn't QFileDialog and such adequate here? I mean are
we expecting to save and load the save games over the network or something
that would require kio?

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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