Plasma 5.8 and look and feel layouts

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 13 September 2016 11:30:49 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 13.09.2016 11:06, David Edmundson wrote:
> > > If we can fix the issues before the release, why hold it back?
> > 
> > The first release is in two days.
> 
> Yes, the beta release, which is there to identify and fix bugs, right?
> Of course the question is: Does the team consider the feature to be stable
> enough for a beta release or not?

that is not a bug, it's a structural issue, that i don't think it can (or 
should) be solved.
and no, look and feel packages are always been there for the whole 5 series 
since 5.0,  so in 5.8 doesn't really change anything in this regard.
they always have been a collection of configurations and not really much else, 
that's what they are intended to be and what they should be.
They should *not* contain stuff like icon themes (and even less, things like 
plasmoids) as this would break things for real.

what maybe can eventually happen is specifying dependencies with appstream 
metadata or stuff like that, even tough i'm very skeptical even about that

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Marco Martin