Split the kioslaves out of plasma-workspace?

[Michael Palimaka]

On 05/11/16 01:52, Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
> Hi
> plasma-workspace currently ships the remote:/, applications:/ and
> desktop:/ kioslaves. The remote:/ one is also used by Dolphin, so
> currently the dolphin package has an (optional) dependency on
> plasma-workspace.
> 
> As discussed in [1], they are 'core' kioslaves (and thus doesn't make
> sense to move them in kio-extras) but it would be nice to simplify
> this situation.
> What about a new repo released within the Plasma schedule?
> 
> Pro:
> - plasma-workspace 5.9 could hard-depend on this new repo (they would
> have the same release schedule)
> - dolphin would have a much smaller dependency
> 
> Cons: ?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> Elvis
> 
> [1]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371825
> 

Are there other components that would be useful to separate too?

I heard someone lament once they had to install plasma-desktop to get
various KCMs when they just used a few KDE applications but not Plasma.