[Kde-pim] kpinterfaces (Was: Start of a Kontact::Plugin for KJots)

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 12 May 2008 13:14:24 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 May 2008 14:23:12 Allen Winter wrote:
> >> On Sunday 11 May 2008 14:01:00 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I've been working on making KJots into a kontact plugin. I've got
> >> > parts of it working, but there's still parts of it I'm not sure of. My
> >> > work is already in svn (kdeutils/kjots), but commented in the
> >> > CMakeLists until I figure out how to make it optional, check kontact
> >> > exists etc.
> >>
> >> We have a more basic problem...
> >>
> >> The kontact public interface isn't installed any longer.
> >> So I don't think you'll be able to build the kjots plugin
> >> unless we move kjots into kdepim.
> >
> > Any volunteers to take over maintainership of the kpinterfaces
> > library and move it from kdepim/kontact/interfaces into kdepimlibs?
> >
> > This will be needed eventually anyhow so toma can build a
> > Mailody plugin for Kontact.
>
> And so that 3rd parties like basket can have a kontact plugin. I think it's
> pretty important.
>
In all honesty, we (at least danimo and myself) very much
dislike basket as a kontact plugin.  But that's a side issue.

> I'll help with co-maintainership of the interface. I really don't think I
> could do it on my own.
>
I'll probably take it myself unless someone else steps up.

> Should it really move out of kdepim though? 
Yes.

> That would make kdepim/kpinterfaces depend on kdepim/kontact, right?
Better not.

> It makes sense where it is.
It must go into kdepimlibs.  We really don't want extragear or 3rd party
apps to depend on kdepim.


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