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 <se...@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 http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team