Latte Dock Farewell

[Michail Vourlakos]

+1

Στις Σάβ, 30 Ιουλ 2022, 5:29 μ.μ. ο χρήστης Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>
έγραψε:

> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 2:31 PM Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/27/22 13:14, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:15 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org>
> wrote:
> > >> Michail has announced he's not going to be developing Latte Dock in
> future
> > >> https://psifidotos.blogspot.com/2022/07/latte-dock-farewell.html
> > >> Thanks for all your work Michail!
> > >>
> > >> As far as we can tell Latte Dock is a popular Plasma addon.  If
> anyone is looking for a project to take on this is your chance.
> > >>
> > >> Otherwise I expect it'll stop working before too long as it uses
> various private APIs so we'll need to tell distros to stop shipping it when
> it does.
> > > Maybe someone could sit down and see which private APIs are being
> > > used? then we can make sure it's in the right side of things and it
> > > keeps working *FOREVER*.
> > >
> > > Aleix
> >
> > I think it could make sense to add Latte to the regular Plasma release,
> > for the following reasons:
> >
> >   - It gives us regular releases "for free", which makes sure that
> > occasional fixes/improvements actually reach users. It would be a shame
> > if those never see the users because no one feels responsible enough to
> > make a release
> >
> > - Having Plasma and Latte in sync helps with the private API problem
> > since a release of Latte has to only support one Plasma release. See
> > e.g. the recent KPipeWire topic where Plasma wanted to remove things
> > Latte uses.
>
> +1
>
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