March Iteration of Frameworks epic

[Kevin Ottens]

On Friday 09 March 2012 17:58:35 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> the March Iteration of splitting kdelibs [1] involves KWindowSystem. As I
> was appointed to be responsible for that I will concentrate my work on this
> epic starting from next week. Any help is more than appreciated.

Glad to read that. In case you missed it though, Aaron started a bit on the 
split, so there's already something in staging/. Probably worth talking to him 
in case he had plans not yet available in the repo.

> What I plan to achieve:
> * getting kwindowsystem as a Tier 1 library (currently it's planned as a
> Tier 2)

I honestly don't remember the reason why it was tentatively earmarked Tier 2. 
But if you manage to make it Tier 1, all the better.

> * moving Plasma::WindowEffects into this library
> * reaching a test coverage of > 90 %

Thumb up to that. :-)

> * removing all deprecated atom hints/legacy functionality etc.
> * clean up coding style ;-)
> * where it makes sense introduce Q_PROPERTIES
> 
> A few things I will have to discuss with the KDE Frameworks maintainers.
> E.g. I think we should drop the Windows and MacOS X implementations of
> KWindowSystem as it is too close to our X world.

Disclaimer: I'm close to clueless about KWindowSystem and friends, mainly 
shuffling options here.

I'm wondering if that's a wise choice or if it would be better to make the API 
of KWindowSystem less "X oriented". Especially if it lands in Tier 1 I would 
see a strong value in the possibility of using KWindowSystem API on non-X 
systems. I count at least Wayland based systems which will appear at some 
point, we'd better be ready for them if possible. Also the Windows and MacOS X 
support are an interesting asset for the library reusability.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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