QtJolie and remote widgets

[Dario Freddi]

Hey guys,

You probably remember that back in the days (I'm talking about Tokamak in 
Randa) I helped Rob getting remote widgets in shape for release. This also 
implied putting a private branch of QtJolie straight into libplasma, due to 
the fact that the current QtJolie release did not support certain features 
which were needed for remote widgets. I think Kevin might confirm that this is 
no longer true - I am not really knowledgeable about Jolie & friends so I 
can't tell.

However, I'd really like to remove that code from kdelibs as it definitely 
does not belong there. However, after a quick look at the code, I found out 
that such a thing would mean having a hard dependency on QtJolie in kdelibs.

So, basically I'd like to know if anybody is planning to maintain remote 
widgets actively to plan what I should do. I am surely fond to learn Jolie as 
I'm interested in it, so I can volunteer for at least having a better 
situation than now.

What I'd like to do is abstract the Jolie stack to let kdelibs compile without 
QtJolie itself (even if this would mean remote widgets won't really work). I 
also remember some people talking about abstracting dnssd for using $something 
else, but I'll leave this for the discussion.

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Dario Freddi
KDE Developer
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