KDE architecture diagram

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, June 7, 2012 09:31:08 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Spent some time yesterday evening on drawing a diagram of KDE architecture,
> as I proposed in an other thread. Please have a look and tell me what's
> wrong in it.

thanks for taking the time to do this.

it certainly helps me understand some of the confusion. the diagram is a set 
of interlocking, overlapping boxes with no apparent structure. there's no 
thematic nature in the boxes or their intersections. it looks confused and 
muddled. it looks nothing like the thing i know, however :)

there's an artificial spliting between "kde workspace" and "plasma active" that 
does not exist. those of us working on these things keep saying that but 
nobody seems to either be listening to or believing us :)

in the diagram, plasma active contains an operating system and intersects 
(some) applications. i'm happy on the one hand because that means that the 
user message has come across clear -> it's an attempt to bring a coherent 
approach to this area. and so the OS and the UX and the apps all need 
harmonize with each other.

it also reflects the people structure in many ways. in fact, i'd say this is a 
more accurate documentation of who has worked on what than what the technical 
design is :)

these are all not bad things. but they are not overly useful when we are 
trying to have technical discussions about the technical design of the 
software.

i will try to come up with something that reflects my knowledge of the system 
in time for the sprint. i can probably start with a diagram that sebas and i 
did up a couple years ago ....

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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