Draft split for qpt plugin from frameworkintegration
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Wed Jan 6 21:18:13 UTC 2016
El Friday 18 December 2015, a les 10:03:39, Martin Graesslin va escriure:
> On Thursday, December 17, 2015 5:48:47 PM CET Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 17, 2015 4:32:48 PM CET Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > following up on [1] I have prepared a split of frameworkintegration to
> > > > move
> > > > the QPT plugin into a dedicated repository. You can find it in [2].
> > > > Please
> > > > have a look at the split repo to verify that it looks fine. If
> > > > everything
> > > > is OK, I'll request a new repo from sysadmins.
> > > >
> > > > Some general notes
> > > > * new repo name: plasma-integration
> > > > * new plugin name: PlasmaDesktopPlatformTheme
> > > > * new src folder name: src/plasma-desktop-platformtheme
> > > >
> > > > Explaining the name changes:
> > > > The plugin is renamed to not conflict on install with the existing
> > > > plugin
> > > > from frameworkintegration and also incorporating future changes Marco
> > > > pointed out: we need a different QPT plugin for mobile.
> > > >
> > > > How to remove the plugin from frameworkintegration:
> > > > After the split we cannot remove it from frameworkintegration yet as
> > > > that
> > > > would break setups on the next framework release. Given that I plan to
> > > > only
> > > > phase it out: Introduce a cmake option to build and install it, which
> > > > defaults to true till at least Plasma 5.6 is released. Afterward
> > > > swapping
> > > > the default to false, with a big fat warning and keeping it like that
> > > > for
> > > > at least half a year. Then remove it. We don't provide any guarantees
> > > > for
> > > > it, so we can remove it, but I want to keep the impact small.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Martin
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2015-December/
> > > > 029234.html
> > > > [2] kde:scratch/graesslin/platform-integration
> > > > (https://quickgit.kde.org/?
> > > > p=scratch%2Fgraesslin%2Fplasma-integration.git )
> > >
> > > I have my doubts that we want a different QPT for desktop and mobile.
> > > If we want to provide any convergence we need to strive to have the
> > > same on both platforms.
> >
> > Good point! Marco is right: we need different presets whether it's desktop
> > or mobile. You're right that different plugins would result in making
> > switching impossible. Sounds like the plugin would have to learn to switch
> > at runtime.
> >
> > Given that feedback I'm considering to not rename the directory.
>
> pushed a new variant without the rename of the source folder and the plugin
> renamed to KDEPlasmaPlatformTheme.
Can you guys please have a look at the Messages.sh? We have now two codebases
(Which i guess are different at this point?) creating the same
frameworksintegration5.pot file
Cheers,
Albert
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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