Plasma 5.10 Frameworks version problem

[Martin Gräßlin]

Am 2017-04-28 17:22, schrieb David Edmundson:
> What's the minimum version of frameworks we can use in Plasma 5.10?
> 
> The schedule currently is:
> 
> 2017-05-06: Frameworks 5.33 gets tagged
> 2017-05-11: Plasma 5.10 beta is tagged && released
> 2017-05-13: Frameworks 5.33 comes out
> 2017-05-25: Plasma 5.10 is tagged
> 
> With the current schedule we can't use frameworks 5.33 in Plasma 5.10
> beta as it will have an unreleased dependency.
> 
> With frameworks 5.32:
> 
> 1) Kwin won't compile (the popupDone code)
> 
> 2) Half of plasma won't load.  New QML api was added in units:
> "iconSizeHints"
> 
> This is used in icon applet, trash, folderview compact, kicker,
> showdesktop, minimizeall
> 
> The worst part about the latter is that you can't see the problem when
> you compile :/
> 
> We can either:
> 
>  revert/ifdef those changes
> 
>  shuffle something above

I vote for shuffling around as it sounds like lots of efforts for little 
gain. The KWin case is rather trivial, but nevertheless probably half an 
hour of work to ensure it works. The iconSizeHints is even more work.

So maybe just move the release by two days and ship together with 
frameworks?

Cheers
Martin