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

[christoph at cullmann.io]

On 2023-11-05 18:35, christoph at cullmann.io wrote:
> 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.

Hi,

any more feedback about this?

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> 
>> 
>> Nate