15.04 feature freeze exception for dolphin and dolphin-plugins

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 1 de març de 2015, a les 21:01:15, David Edmundson va escriure:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El Dissabte, 28 de febrer de 2015, a les 00:40:45, David Edmundson va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > > El Divendres, 27 de febrer de 2015, a les 11:04:57, Vishesh Handa va
> > > > 
> > > > escriure:
> > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> > > > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > What needs to be done to release the KF5 based version of
> > > > > > > dolphin
> > > > > > > and
> > > > > > > dolphin-plugins:
> > > > > > > * remove dolphin from kde-baseapps
> > > > > > > * merge frameworks branch into master in dolphin and
> > 
> > dolphin-plugins
> > 
> > > > > > > The requirements for dolphin:
> > > > > > > * Qt >= 5.4
> > > > > > > * KDE Frameworks >= 5.7
> > > > > > > * ECM >= 1.6
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > As I already mentioned in another mail, you also need
> > > > > > baloo-widgets
> > > > 
> > > > that
> > > > 
> > > > > > is
> > > > > > undereleased. Who is going to review and release baloo-widgets for
> > > > > > KF5?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does it really need to go through review? It has been shipped with
> > 
> > KDE4.
> > 
> > > > I don't know, you tell me, how much has the code changed?
> > > > 
> > > > > We can just make a release. The KF5 port has been ready for a long
> > 
> > time.
> > 
> > > > I
> > > > 
> > > > > just haven't pushed to make a release of it, since it's difficult to
> > > > > know
> > > > > where to release it. I suggest we release it part of the application
> > > > > release, if Emannuel is alright with that.
> > > > > Otherwise Dolphin can be released without Baloo.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you think our users would appreciate losing those features?
> > > > What is our goal in here?
> > > > Release a KF5-based Dolphin for the sake of releasing a KF5-based
> > 
> > Dolphin?
> > 
> > > > Or do we want to give our users the best posible user experince?
> > > 
> > > That's a somewhat loaded question.
> > 
> > It is not a loaded question, it's an honest question, which by answering
> > with
> > another question you're trying to not answer.
> > 
> > OK, I'll answer very clearly.
> 
> It's not being pushed "for the sake of it".
> 
> I think the KF5 version gives the best possible user experience.
> 
> > Which do we want to give our users? The one which is being actively
> > 
> > > supported or the one that isn't.
> > 
> > Is suddenly kdelibs4-Dolphin broken?
> 
> A little bit.
> 
> It uses the KPart from konsole. Konsole is frameworks based. Unless distros
> work around it it doesn't load.
> 
> kdelibs4 KRatingPainter can't the breeze icons properly so everything
> appears as 5 stars (it desaturates a grey icon). This is fixed in
> frameworks.
> 
> It currently shares the same database as Baloo 5; that is going to change
> databases which means anything using the old libs will stop working.

Ok, i'm tired of being the bad guy, do whatever you have to do to make it the 
release happen and tell me all the extra repositories that need to be part of 
the release.

> 
> 
> David