Dezibel-ḰDE

[Torsten Rahn]

We have reconsidered the case and it looks like we'd rather like to see  the 
dezibel-kde part shipped for KDE 4.3.

Regards,
Torsten

On Friday 21 November 2008 18:33:26 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 13 November 2008, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > It's important to provide and ship the Decibel-KDE libs support soon. You
> > can't always assume that people will always use trunk to develop with.
> > I'd claim that most people who develop against KDE 4 these days try to
> > develop against the stable version of KDE unless there is a really
> > important API enhancement in trunk that they need to depend on (and that
>
> this has always been the case. the majority of application developers do
> not use trunk, and even if they do they realize many of their users don't
> and so avoid using library features that are only in trunk.
>
> > > Which apps are using/want to use Decibel?
> >
> > Except for Kopete and other IM messaging clients there are possible other
> > applications which could use Decibel: ?
>
> this is where we ought to be aware of KDE4's likeness to KDE2 more than
> KDE3. in KDE3 we had a pretty strict "Must already be used in applications"
> policy, while in KDE2 it seemed a lot more technology was added "because
> applications should be able to $FOO". that's because in KDE3 we had what we
> needed and we wanted to avoid unending bloat for no purpose while in KDE2
> (and KDE4) we were adding tools to let us do what we wanted to able to do.
>
> decibel certainly falls into that category.
>
>
> as for the rest of Torsten's observations and comments, i think he's
> correct across the board.