Plasma-next-nm

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi Jan,

On Friday, March 14, 2014 11:21:17 Jan Grulich wrote:
> I would like to inform you about the current situation with plasma-nm and
> libraries for Plasma Next.
> 
> We just started working on a proper Qt5/KF5 port of plasm-nm together with
> libnm-qt/libmm-qt libraries. For libnm-qt we decided to port master branch
> to Qt5 and make it work with the current stable version of NM and also with
> the current development version (future NM 0.9.10). In libmm-qt it is also
> ported to Qt5 in master, but we set minimum required version of
> ModemManager to 1.1, which was previous development version, but MM 1.2 is
> already out and we suppose that major distributions will have this version
> in their next release. I think a few distributions already have it, like
> ArchLinux, OpenSuse, Gentoo and Fedora. For plasma-nm we created a new
> branch called "0.9.3" (maybe we should pick up a better name) for the
> current stable version and we plan to make one more stable release with the
> new model, so it's easier to maintain it and backport fixes from Plasma
> Next version. There is also new branch called "frameworks-update", where I
> merged master with the current frameworks branch and I would like to make
> it work properly and then merge it to back to frameworks and here continue
> with development. Right now I recommend not using frameworks-update branch
> and wait until it's merged to frameworks.
> 
> We were also thinking of having libnm-qt/libmm-qt as frameworks, they depend
> only on Qt, so they could be  in Tier 1, but would be probably better to
> wait on the new version of NetworkManager and update it completely.

I think overall, this fits in nicely with our Plasma Next plans.

As to the optional dependency stuff, that's also fine.

Please let us know if you want something tested, you need feedback, or you run 
into problems with the Plasma Next port, we'll be happy to help.

Thanks for the update,
-- 
sebas

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