QCA2 and Remote Widgets

[Dario Freddi]

In data domenica 06 settembre 2009 18:47:05, Rob Scheepmaker ha scritto:
: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 16:49:36 Dario Freddi wrote:
> > Hello people,
> >
> > we do have a problem! The new remote widgets in plasma are requiring QCA2
> > to make things work out. The problem is that by now, QCA2 is an optional
> > package for KDELibs, and when it is not found, there are no checks in
> > plasma that will prevent things needing QtCrypto (the remotewidgets
> > authorizer) from being thrown off the build.
> 
> Oops... Somehow I was under the impressioon QCA2 was already a required
> package.

My fault as well, I did not notice that in the first place while helping you 
push the stuff :)

> 
> > Rob, is it possible at the moment to compile libplasma without
> > QCA2/Remote Widgets? If so, please tell me how so that I can come up with
> > a fix to this. Otherwise, we have to get through k-c-d requesting another
> > hard dependency for KDELibs
> 
> Compiling without Remote Widgets suppor is not yet possible at the moment,
>  but I can make sure it won't be required. All QCA related code is only in
>  one class: Credentials. I can add some cmake stuff and ifdefs to make sure
>  validSignature() always returns false and canSign always returns false in
>  case of a missing QCA. This makes sure accessRemoteApplet and publish()
>  always just plain fails.

This one is a valuable option, we can spit a phat warning if QCA2 is not 
installed in the optional packages. KAuth at the moment has a similar behavior 
on linux if polkit-qt is not found.

>  I should probably return no remoteApplets in
>  AccessManager as well so we don't list zeroconf announced plasmoids in
>  places that do that (soon the new widget explorer for example), since you
>  won't be able to connect anyways without QCA.

This also would be even nicer

> I'm now dealing with some personal stuff, but I'm sure I'll have the time
> tomorrow to fix this, and make QCA2 an optional dependency for libplasma.

Take your time, 4.4 is far away :) My primary concern was wheter to trigger a 
discussion on having yet another hard dependency on kdelibs. Just ping me back 
when you're done with this

> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 

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Dario Freddi
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