Yep, I discussed a bit with stikonas on irc yesterday, I won't move it somewhere without his input for sure.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Luigi Toscano <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeremy Whiting ha scritto: >> Hello all, >> >> tldr, should we kill kdetoys? >> >> As Applications 15.08 has been released I thought I'd take a look at >> which of our applications still need to be ported to Qt5/kf5. I did a >> diff of what we released in the 15.08 release vs what is already kf5 >> based and got this result: https://paste.kde.org/prbvha5kh#line-13 <-- >> paste should stay for a year. Items with + are not Qt5/kf5 based yet >> or weren't in the 15.08 release. Christoph Feck has a more detailed >> list that includes Extragear, but isn't organized by KDE Module here: >> http://developer.kde.org/~cfeck/portingstatus.html . > > Historical note: when kdetoys programs were migrated from SVN to GIT and split > (two years ago), the second part of the plan was to kill the module, move amor > to kdegames, ktux to kdeartwork and kteatime in kdeutils. > >> I took a quick stab at porting amor to Qt5/kf5 and it shouldn't be too >> hard, but the question is should it be ported at all? The previous >> maintainer hasn't touched it in quite some time. The code is X11 >> specific, and the whole concept won't work on Wayland anyway because >> windows don't know about each other and can't position themselves. > > No real opinion. > >> >> KTux has been ported to Qt5/kf5 but I don't see any way in plasma 5 to >> make it the screensaver. We only support images in the lock screen and >> kwin will only support the greeter used in >> plasma-workspace/ksmserver/screenlocker so if you run it it shows a >> nice window of tux flying around, but I don't think that's useful in >> today's screensaver less world somehow. > > That's not true, we support animated wallpapers as screenlockers and we should > provide more documentation on how to create them. When I pinged Andrius > Štikonas, who did the port, he said that he could try to see if ktux can be > changed into an animated wallpaper (with no guarantees due to other duties). > He just finished the port, give him some time... or at least please ask him. > > >> >> KTeatime may still be useful, but if we are cleaning out kdetoys, >> maybe it should be moved to kdeutils so it isn't the lone application >> in a module? > > kdeutils is the natural choice (see above). > >> >> I'll ask sysadmin to make the above moves unless anyone objects within >> a couple of weeks. I would put ktux and amor into unmaintained (or >> playground? not sure which is more suitable) and stop releasing them >> in 15.12 and move kteatime to kdeutils. > > Just please check about ktux first. > > Ciao > -- > Luigi > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
