Move KJots to kdepim?

[Will Stephenson]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:47:45 Allen Winter wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:23:30 Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 20:54:32 you wrote:
> > >> Howdy,
> > >>
> > >> Any objection to moving KJots from kdeutils into kdepim?
> > >>
> > >> The kjots.desktop file even puts itself into the PIM Utilities
> > >> category.
> > >>
> > >> One big reason to do this is so kjots can be embedded into Kontact.
> > >
> > > I'm fine with it anyway.
> > >
> > > Steve.
> > > (KJots maintainer)
> >
> > I don't see the point of moving it. Why does KJots need to be in
> > kdepim in order to be embedded into Kontact?
>
> Because we no longer install the headers which make it
> possible to do so.  Ok.. technically you could copy the headers
> to your project dir and hack a solution.  Even still, this makes
> kdeutils dependent on kdepim (because the jots  plugin will
> require the kontact interface library).
>
> The kontact interface library API is not stable so we can't
> move it to kdepimlibs, unfortunately.
>
> This isn't a huge deal.  I almost would be happier without
> a kjots plugin, but others seem to want such a thing.

So kjots in Kontact won't happen for 4.1 now anyway.  During the 4.2 release 
cycle, copy the (unstable) headers to kjots svn until the plugin is done then 
shift the whole lot into PIM then - job done.

Decide when a kjots plugin is realistic, and make an appropriate decision.

Will

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Will Stephenson
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