[Konsole-devel] suggestion: konsole split into widget and app

[Petr Vanek]

On 09/17/2014 04:10 PM, Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
>
> On 9/17/14, 9:23 AM, Petr Vanek wrote:
>> hi konsole devs,
>>
>> I'm a maintainer of qtermwidget a Qt only based branch of older konsole,
>> parts of konsole to be honest.
>> https://github.com/qterminal/qtermwidget
>>
>> The qtermwidget project became quite popular and it's used in many Qt
>> applications.
>>
>> Unfortunately the code itself is still blackbox for me and fixing bugs
>> etc. is mostly based on grepping of konsole sources, porting it to pure
>> Qt again. Personally I feel more and more like it's waste of time.
>>
>> And here comes the proposal.
> Hi,
>  Yes, in the past I've looked around to see if any external software
> could be used in Konsole to replace some of the basic functions
> (TerminalDisplay/VT102).
>> Are you interested in idea of making one shared "terminal widget
>> library", something like libvte for GTK/GNOME is, which can be used in
>> Qt and KDE apps? I offer some help in the case you will agree.
> That sounds like an idea.  Note that this will have to be for KDE
> Frameworks 5 as there will be no more KDE 4.x versions released.

I'm glad there is some interest. Really.

It's definitelly no problem for me. Qt5 is much better for deployment on
OS X and also LXQT will switch to Qt5 in the near future completely.

Can we arrange a roadmap for it somehow, please?

My idea is to identify files belonging to "terminal wiget", "konsole
app"  and "kpart" first - here I would appreciate some help because I'm
not sure about the code structure.
Then I suggest to split the "widget" files into standalone library.
I can remove KDE hard dependencies there, in the "widget" quite easily
after that. For example kDebug, KSettings, etc. this stuff can stay in
application itself.

Also I'm open to any other suggestions...

thanks,
petr