Restoring weather applet in kdeplasma-addons

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 09 February 2016 01:07:14 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> the
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> > config key
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> You meant "main.xml" here where you wrote "config.xml", right?
> (would match files I found elsewhere in the repo)


ah, yes, main.xml


> Thanks for the pointers, going to play with this next.
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> > > * integration with KNewStuff for weather data providers
> > > 
> > >  (though currently bound to private and no longer existing
> > > 
> > > http://www.sh0n.net/spstarr/khotnewstuff/plasmaweather-providers.xml)
> > 
> > yeah, i think this has to be skipped for now, it needed stuff that i
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> don't
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> > want to expose as public symbol again.
> > I'll probably add some simpler js binding to replace that in the future
> 
> Okay, will completely remove any KNewStuff code then for now.

yeah, better going for that for now

> > > * KUnitConversion data handling config & widgets, no idea yet how to
> 
> port
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> > > that to QQ2
> > 
> > isn't that stuff in kde4support?
> 
> No, KF5::UnitConversion is a proper frameworks lib :)
> 

excellent then :)
so the sanest approach is indeed have a minimal c++ applet, then adding back 
those classes you need:
there is actually an app template for that, should be available either from 
kdevelop or kapptemplate

-- 
Marco Martin