reducing amount of bundled kemoticon themes

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Sun May 29 13:56:47 UTC 2016


It just occured to Riddell that maybe we should move them to kde-apps.
Which seems like a swell idea, seeing as putting them in a repo with
tarball doesn't really have value of any sort.

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> Hola!
>
> I have been talking to Andreas Kainz and we kind of concluded that out
> of the four kemoticon themes we ship by default two should be kicked
> out of the framework as they are not needed for operation, increase
> disk foot print, and litter the emoticon kcm with excess default
> options.
>
> So, we propose that 'kde4' and 'glass' should be moved elsewhere.
>
> The question is: where?
>
> Pretty much all three release bundles are an option although
> personally I would find it rather meh to have a themes-only tarball in
> frameworks.
>
> We could also drop this into extragear and release it as required.
> Required being exactly once, since this stuff actually never changes
> anyway.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> HS


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