System Settings KCM Tidying

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I added myself to "Connection" KCM if you don't mind,


Awesome. I hoped you would :)


> but I have a question.
> Do you expect that all KCMs will be completely rewritten in QML?


I expect 3 years from now they will all be.
I'd be surprsied if it was much sooner.


> I'm just
> afraid that rewriting the editor part into QML will be more than a long
> process. There is so many kind of connections, not even mentioning VPNs,
> with
> tons of possible properties. If you do expect it to be completely written
> in
> QML, we will have to probably find some compromise or give it more time. If
> the editor part can still be QWidget based, then according to the mockup it
> shouldn't really be a problem to change it as the code base is quite ready
> for
> that.


Problem is we also need network management in the phone UI stack, and
that's needed in the shorter-medium term. Maybe in this specific case
that's safest happening in parallel separate from the current KCM code.
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