Porting to KF5

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I think we are all eager to see KTp working awesomely working on our
>> Plasma 5 systems. I've started to push some of the ports in my BlueSystems
>> time then I saw some of you were starting to push in that direction, so I
>> decided to come up with a little kanboard so that we can make sure
>> everything happens properly. [1]
>>
>> I recommend some of you to decide to take some of the modules to port. We
>> should decide what we take for a good port, you'll see I added 2 subtasks
>> to any task:
>> - Builds with Qt5: that means that it can be built and somewhat used on
>> the Qt5 version. I recommend to make naïve ports in the first run, so that
>> things doesn't break. By naïve I mean using KDELibs4Support, then we can go
>> stripping those down little by little. Maybe even as GCI tasks.
>> - Qt5 in master: there we should decide when we're going to do the move
>> and if we want any kind of quality standard to follow, such as dropping
>> KDELibs4Support or similar. From my experience, things seem to work quite
>> smoothly anyway (I've been using the ported KTp chat plasmoid since around
>> May without much trouble).
>>
>> Also some release release under the KDE Frameworks umbrella would be very
>> interesting soon, I'd like to hear from the maintainers about that.
>>
>
> Let's aim for as much kdelibs4support-free ports as possible for any
> release/merge in master. It's not that hard and we don't have that much
> code that would use it extensively (auth-handler and accounts-kcm's
> internal libs are all fully ported already).
>
>
In general I agree, it's slow work though, especially considering that
KIcon is massively over-used in ktp codebase. Anyway, if somebody wants to
spend some nice time helping KTp, it's a very good way to do so. :D

Aleix
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