porting konqueror to KF5

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 30 December 2014 10:31:09 Stefano Crocco wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> some time ago I wrote a blog post [1] asking for someone willing to maintain
> konqueror or, at least, to port it to KF5>

No, I'm the one who wrote it :-)

> I was wondering what's the situation now (the blog post was written in
> August). 

I ported konqueror itself, but there are other bits that need porting.

konqueror/client
konqueror/preloader
konq-plugins/* (except fsview which I ported recently, and which you could use 
as an example for the other plugins)

There's also konqueror/sidebar, but this one is much harder and might need a 
rewrite, because it has Qt3Support code. Maybe rather rethink what the GUI 
should be, for that part....

Getting started is very easy: 
1) compile KF5 as per
https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building
up to kde-baseapps.

2) uncomment one of the commented out subdirs in the parent CMakeLists.txt

3) now you're getting compilation errors ;)
Use the scripts from kde-dev-scripts.git subdir kf5. adapt_cmakelists_file.pl 
is the first one that's useful...
And use https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Porting_Notes as well as the 
deprecation notes in the api docs, to find out what to port to.
Look at ecdcb054b2cef6946400f3fe87c719f86bd8625e for what I had to do in the 
fsview subdir, I suspect things will be similar for other plugins.

4) upload the patch to reviewboard, adding me as reviewer.

Have fun !

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5