plasma-framework in kdereview

[Kevin Ottens]

On Friday 25 April 2014 17:46:23 David Edmundson wrote:
> > Well... it's been planned this way for three years if not more. Before
> > that it was in kdelibs.
> > 
> >> Also, right now there is only one user of this framework
> >> (plasma-desktop),
> > 
> > That's because the other users weren't ported to KF5 yet. But there's
> > definitely more plasma users (amarok comes to mind, skrooge too iirc), not
> > really shells.
> 
> That was before QtQuickControls and KDeclarative's imports. Back then
> Plasma was the convenient way to get some sort of button
>
> If Amarok or Skrooge wants to use anything from Plasma we are doing
> something wrong.

I think these statements show you totally ignore the history behind libplasma 
or how applications can use it... They (at least Amarok, not 100% sure for 
Skrooge) benefit from the component model used in libplasma: packages, 
dataengines, plugins.

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

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

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