kio-extras into applications

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday, July 02, 2015 12:38:24 David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2015 13:07:45 Alexander Potashev wrote:
> > 2015-07-02 12:54 GMT+03:00 Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>:
> > > If for example I want to use fish:// for my desktop folderview, I'd have
> > > to install something from applications. That's what I meant.
> 
> Yes, and you also need to install something from applications if you want
> to  edit that image file that you see in folderview. You see it as a very
> different thing because one is a plugin and one is an application, but to
> the end user, it's both "need something more, install something more", very
> broadly speaking.
> 
> I think you also need to install something from applications if you want to 
> read the help file for desktop folderview
> 
> > Nitpicking: there are application outside of KDE Application that let
> > you access fish://, for example Krusader.
> 
> You are both right, no contradiction there.
> 
> > But still, there is nothing wrong in installing only kio-extras from
> > KDE Applications and nothing else from it.
> 
> Yep. On the other hand, telling people to install a part of Plasma to get 
> fish:// support in kwrite sounds very wrong to me.
> 
> > > Surely it does, as soon as an app developer wants to integrate a
> > > specific
> > > protocol for their app (and not just "any" protocol, like KIO), then
> > > this
> > > would be needed. I imagine getting something from a webdav server, or
> > > storing a file on a specific backup service.)
> >
> > If an app developer wants to integrate WebDAV with the help of KIO,
> > then kio-extras will be a run-time dependency, so there's absolutely
> > no reason for having kio-extras in Frameworks.
> 
> Bad example, since WebDAV is implemented by kio_http which is in kio itself 
> 
> But yeah, you could come up with a case where an application developer 
> specifically needs a particular kioslave as the central piece of the 
> application; in such case I could actually be convinced to add it to
> kio.git,  provided that it doesn't add dependencies. Or as you say, that's
> just a matter of documenting a runtime dependency. I'm sure we have other
> cases of apps that need each other at runtime...

Thanks, that's useful information, and a possible strategy for improvement 
should that case arise.

I'm OK with moving kio-extras into applications.
-- 
sebas

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