[Kde-pim] Killing kpimutils framework

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, September 29, 2014 21:20:20 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> * /playground/base/plasma-lionmail/*
> 
> I think lionmail is dead. The last real activity seems to have happened 
> 3.5 years ago.
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/plasma-lionmail/repository
> /revisions/master/revisions?per_page=100
> 
> 
> From your description the LinkLocator class appears to do at least four 
> different things (linkify email addresses, linkify URLs, do */_ markup, 
> handle emoticons). In my book this means that this class does at least 
> three things too much. It should probably be split into 4 (or more) 
> separate classes. Those could then be moved to appropriate places, e.g. 
> the emoticon handling clearly seems to belong into KEmoticons.

Yes, that attempt is dead, it uses QGraphicsWidgets and is all shades of 
horrible code-wise. I'm still hoping to find the time to reimplement it, since 
the ideas behind it are sound. At *that* point, I might need LinkLocator 
again, but it's definitely far from an immediate need right now.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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