kde-workspace and plasma2

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday, May 13, 2013 15:10:41 Marco Martin wrote:
> * a kded that says what formfactor we are running on
> in the end the plasma part of kde-workspace should look like
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/KdeWorkspaceRepoStructure
> (at least so was discussed in nuremberg)

this is currently in the plasma-framework repository in the 
kded_platformstatus branch. it is part of the runtime (applications will also 
want it), and as such i put it there. i'll merge it into master as nobody 
seems to notice it in the branch which means i'm the only one who has tried it 
at all :)

> I would propose to make the branch
> plasma/sebas/desktop-qml-plasma2
> that is now hosting the desktop containment and the toolboxes to host the

if you saw that branch in the repo, would you ever guess that this is the 
general PW2 porting branch? i doubt it :)

i'm very much *against* branching kde-workspace for PW2 before 4.11 is out. 
for one thing, it means having to forward-port all commits made in kde-
workspace between now and 4.11 (which won't happen, knowing how people are).

you want to have the image wallpaper ported, and you can do it in sebas' 
branch (or make another branch, but i don't see any purpose to that)

as for changing the source tree layout in kde-workspace ... i don't understand 
why you and sebas keep pushing for us to do that as if that is the next 
important thing on our roadmap.

> then the other parts (like kwin, ksysguard etc) can work on ports in their
> own  branches (or own repo, their choice) and merge when is ready (or stay
> on different repo)

so "do whatever you want". this runs a high chance of a mess with some things 
in a repo, some things not, something in branch A and others in branch B.

remember that many of these components share libraries. not all have active 
maintainers. (*sigh*) we haven't decided yet on the final repository split 
strategy (each app in its own repo? the plasma components? where do the 
libraries go?)

please do not try and rush this. let's do it right, and do a little planning. 
there is no "this has to be done yesterday" rush. i don't want to put up with 
people yelling at us (or: me) because we do a slap-dash job of migrating kde-
workspace to frameworks.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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