To reduce JuK dependencies on KDE frameworks?

Petko Ditchev pditchev at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 16:22:30 BST 2013


Thanks for the info , I found the branch , and built it . It doesn't 
seem that easy though . Right off the bat I stumbled on QTs lack of 
global shortcut support . Nevertheless I'm curious to get Martins 
overview of how much the actual problems are.

Petko

On 10/05/2013 04:20 PM, Shubham Chaudhary wrote:
> Hi Petko,
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Petko Ditchev <pditchev at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pditchev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi , I'm not really a KDE user , but I found out that JuK is
>     pretty much the best player out there for the linux desktop  (at
>     least for my needs - it's awesome that the playlists are kept
>     intact and not imported in some imaginary app-specific .xml) .
>      So , on-topic : when I installed JuK with all deps it was ~200MB
>     . Also I believe the KDE runtime services are required . So the
>     question is - are there that many bindings to the KDE frameworks
>     (that can't be easily replaced by pure Qt) ? I'm willing to start
>     a Qt port , if the anwser is no , and there's a general consensus
>     that it would be beneficial for the project (I'm pretty sure it
>     will be) .
>
>
> AFAIK there is an ongoing effort lead by Martin Sandsmark to port JuK 
> completely away from KDE3 support libraries to allow it to be ported 
> to the Qt5-based KDE libraries. It seems to have trailed off last 
> year though, and I've been told that it's quite a difficult task. I 
> CCed Martin this. He might be able to shed some more light on this matter.
>
>
>     A side question (just out of curiosity ,I'm not really able to
>     implement such stuff yet) - has someone thought about plugin support?
>
>     Petko
>
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> Regards,
> Shubham Chaudhary - http://about.me/shubhamchaudhary
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