plasmate and kdevelop coming closer?

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <
giorgos.tsiapaliokas at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> my name is Giorgos and I am contributing to KDE since 2011.
> Most of my contributions are on plasmate [1]. Most of my patches
> are based on plasmate and these days I am the main contributor of plasmate.
> Plasmate focuses on making it easier for people to create, test and publish
> plasma packages, like plasmoids and themes.
>
>
> Also this year I have been accepted in GSOC and my project is
> to port plasmate to KDevPlatform. Here [2] is a blog post explaining
> the reasoning behind the port of plasmate to KDevPlatform.
>
> Here is a small summary of my blog post.
> For me the goal of plasmate isn't to make plasmate the next big IDE,
> the goal is to give people the option of using the great tools that it
> provides. In the plasmate repository expect from plasmate we also provide
> most
> of its functionality as standalone applications. This desicion has been
> taken
> by the success that tools like plasmoidviewer and engine explorer had.
> Even in
> the new tools that we added we kept offering them as standalone
> applications.
>
>
> *But* until now plasmate wasn't using anything from KDevPlatform
> which led to a big maintainance burden. So we ended up at spending more
> time  fixing stuff in plasmate rather than impoving the tools that it
> provides.
> Which for me isn't ideal.
>
> So which is the plan? As it regards plasmate, the plan is to make it focus
> on
> plasma packages only and to be as simple as possible, for instance plasmate
> shouldn't have a gdb debugger. As it regards the tools that
> plasmate(repository) offers the plan is to make them usable within from
> KDevelop because they will be plugins.
>
> What I would like to see is us(the people working on KDevelop and plasmate)
> working closer. How could the plasmate contributors help KDevelop more?
> What would you like to see from plasmate? In general how can we collaborate
> more? Do we all want to work together?
>
>
> [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/sdk/plasmate
> [2]
> http://terietor.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/porting-plasmate-to-kdevplatform/
>
> thanks,
> Giorgos
>
>
Hi Giorgos,
First, thanks for the e-mail, it will be very interesting to see how this
goes forward.

I think that a good exercise will be to know what API's from kdevplatform
are you leveraging and which
interfaces you are planning to implement yourself. But for the moment, I
think you should try to use
as much as possible from KDevelop and see what is that you don't like.

Cheers!
Aleix
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