plasma-framework, kactivities and kactivities-stats: please consider proper de-KF-ication now

[christoph at cullmann.io]

On 2023-11-05 18:01, Nate Graham wrote:
> On 11/5/23 07:42, Kevin Ottens wrote:
>> I was clumsily advocating for this Akademy 2021 or 2022 (can't 
>> remember
>> which).
>> 
>> This way it's clearer to application authors when they tie themselves 
>> to a
>> given workspace or not.
>> 
>> Also, isn't Elisa able to work without Baloo? It even seems to do the 
>> right
>> thing if I trust its CMakeLists.txt. It has Baloo as a recommended but
>> optional dependency, and disable it altogether for Win32 builds.
> 
> Yes, Elisa also includes an internal indexer, for use on Windows and 
> Android, or on *Nix when Baloo isn't installed or is disabled.
> 
> I think the original idea for the app was to delegate all the indexing 
> heavy lifting to Baloo to avoid internal complication, but clearly this 
> has not worked out in practice, since to be truly cross-platform, it 
> can't assume that Baloo is present and active and does need its own 
> indexer. So maybe the best course of action is actually to remove Baloo 
> support entirely and always use the internal indexer, so that we don't 
> have two different code paths.

Hi,

sounds for me a lot easier to test with just one variant.
And one would always use the variant Windows uses.

Greetings
Christoph


> 
> Nate