Possible issue with the dependency freeze for 19.04

[laurent Montel]

Le vendredi 29 mars 2019, 12:20:45 CET Daniel Vrátil a écrit :
> On Friday, March 29, 2019 11:42:03 AM CET laurent Montel wrote:
> > Le vendredi 29 mars 2019, 10:43:57 CET Daniel Vrátil a écrit :
> > > On Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:51:49 PM CET Heiko Becker wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I wondered why korganizer and mailcommon suddenly moved from phonon to
> > > > qtmultimedia and I tried to get some information about it (Turns out
> > > > the
> > > > commit messages don't help one bit, e.g. "Clean up"). Anyway, this
> > > > happened
> > > > on 21 March, a week after dependency freeze and it was suggested to me
> > > > to
> > > > bring this to the attention of this mailing list.
> > > 
> > > I think we should revert this - QtMultimedia is not integrated with KDE
> > > the
> > > way Phonon is - we should use Phonon in KDE apps to provide consistent
> > > experience.
> > > 
> > > Laurent, what was the motivation for the switch?
> > 
> > Just for reducing extra lib.
> > Just for playing a song (when a message arrives) I don't see why we need
> > to
> > add this dependency.
> 
> You literally only replaced one dependency by another. Absolutely nothing
> was gained here....the entire PIM already depends on Phonon,

Just the 2 area which I ported.
Not other phonon references.

> everything in
> KDE depends on Phonon, all you achieved by this is, that the app no longer
> follows user's KDE-wide audio settings.

Ok so you can revert it.

> 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Heiko
> > > > 
> > > > [1]
> > > > https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/19.04_Release_Schedul
> > > > e


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