Dropping kdelibs4-based applications in KDE Applications 17.12

R.Harish Navnit harishnavnit at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 10:07:36 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 November 2016 00:51:50 CET Sven Brauch wrote:
>> On 11/11/16 16:45, Dominik Haumann wrote:
>> > What do you think about having a Randa meeting (or similar) with focus
>> > on finishing ports to KF5? Would that make sense?
>>
>> +1 actually. There are a few applications on that list which would, in
>> my eyes, be a real loss if they were not maintained any more; I'm
>> especially looking at kcachegrind (I know of no comparable tool and it's
>> really good), maybe kopete. kmag is nice too on occasion but I don't
>> know if it will die with wayland anyways.
>
> +1 on kcachegrind, that would be a real loss. Actually there's an actively
> maintained frameworks branch, maybe we just need to poke Josef? ;)
There's a kf5 branch for kopete too. While I can't say it's seeing
active development at the moment, it has been worked on quite
extensively and looks near complete. For more :
https://marc.info/?l=kopete-devel&m=147851133511821&w=2

>
> @Josef: Is the frameworks branch stable? If yes, let's release!
>
>> I'd be in for a sprint (or a few days of a sprint) to port those.
>
> Consider me in as well.
+1 from me too.

Cheers,
Harish


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