[Kde-pim] Move KJots to kdepim?

[Stephen Kelly]

Will Stephenson wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:47:45 Allen Winter wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:23:30 Matt Rogers wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Kelly
>> > <steveire-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 20:54:32 you wrote:
>> > >> Howdy,
>> > >>
>> > >> Any objection to moving KJots from kdeutils into kdepim?
>> > >>
>> > >> The kjots.desktop file even puts itself into the PIM Utilities
>> > >> category.
>> > >>
>> > >> One big reason to do this is so kjots can be embedded into Kontact.
>> > >
>> > > I'm fine with it anyway.
>> > >
>> > > Steve.
>> > > (KJots maintainer)
>> >
>> > I don't see the point of moving it. Why does KJots need to be in
>> > kdepim in order to be embedded into Kontact?
>>
>> Because we no longer install the headers which make it
>> possible to do so.  Ok.. technically you could copy the headers
>> to your project dir and hack a solution.  Even still, this makes
>> kdeutils dependent on kdepim (because the jots  plugin will
>> require the kontact interface library).
>>
>> The kontact interface library API is not stable so we can't
>> move it to kdepimlibs, unfortunately.
>>
>> This isn't a huge deal.  I almost would be happier without
>> a kjots plugin, but others seem to want such a thing.
> 
> So kjots in Kontact won't happen for 4.1 now anyway.

Really? The plugin is really nearly done. KJots does load in kontact now. It
just needs a little help from someone more familiar with how kontact
plugins work and what needs to go into the desktop file.

> During the 4.2 
> release cycle, copy the (unstable) headers to kjots svn until the plugin
> is done then shift the whole lot into PIM then - job done.

Can't this be done as easily for KDE 4.1? I'd really like to get it in for
then.

> 
> Decide when a kjots plugin is realistic, and make an appropriate decision.
> 
> Will
> 

Best regards,

Steve.
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