Broken categories in our templates or kapptemplate?

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was just trying to create a new Qt/C++ CMake project but was kinda
>>> confused by the categories presented to me. The left-most list was:
>>>
>>> Python, Ruby, C++, KDE, Standard
>>>
>>> Naturally I chose C++ but that only has KDE (i.e. real KDE stuff, like
>>> plasma, KApplication etc.) and and qmake templates.
>>>
>>> I then checked Standard and KDE since the other two categories are
>>> clearly not what I want. Standard has only a C++/Terminal with CMake.
>>> Interestingly the KDE entry does not have a single KDE-related
>>> template, all of the three are CMake/C++ Qt templates - one for tests,
>>> one for gui and one for non-gui apps.
>>>
>>> Now before I whip up a bugreport:
>>>
>>> Is this categorization intentional as outlined above?
>>>
>>> Should the categories in KDevelop or kapptemplate be changed? (I'd
>>> personally fix the kdevelop templates to use the language as first
>>> option too)
>>>
>> What KDE SDK version do you have? this changed some time ago...
>
> Interesting, still 4.7.4, thought I updated to 4.8 on that machine already...
>
>> The reasoning behind was that it's more clear to have what you're
>> trying to achieve in the topmost level so that you can get all the
>> options on how to do it in the end.
>
> Ok, so intended is to have KDE and Standard as top-levels? If so, our
> templates are incorrectly categorized still IMO. After all a
> QtCore-CMake-C++ template has absolutely nothing to do with "KDE".
> Those would better be in a Qt category I think.
>
> Andreas
>
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Maybe so.

Qt wasn't split because when this change was done there was a lot of
the frameworks decisions going on. I think that what we should end up
having is only Qt for applications and KDE for backends stuff, like
KIO. Or not.

Aleix