Hi Alex, On 09/09/2014, at 7:48 PM, Aleix Pol wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have heard that Dr Konqi source code for Frameworks/KF 5 > has been placed in plasma-workspace. > > Please could you consider keeping it in some location that is > common to all platforms? This includes both Linux platforms and > non-Linux platforms, such as Windows and Apple OS X, where > Plasma is not usually required. > > Dr K used to be in kde-runtime on KDE 4 and is needed on > every platform, along with KCrash. > > > It was placed there because it pulls a large bunch of dependencies we > don't want for KCrash framework. Some work on it is needed though. > > Aleix
As mentioned in my other post, I am doing some work on Dr Konqi, mainly to get it to work properly (and not crash) in KDE 4 on Apple OS X. I think my bug fixes and changes to keep up with new versions of Bugzilla software (on the b-k-o database), will be forward portable to KF5/Frameworks. Re dependencies, I think I can remove a large indirect one: Dr K's dependence on KCookieJar and kded. Bugzilla is no longer using cookies. I see Dr K as an app, to be ported to Frameworks just like any other app, but sooner than most. I am not putting up my hand for that, because of advancing age and plans to retire from KDE work. There are several other apps and utilities in kde-runtime. Have all of those gone into plasma-workspace? Some of them would definitely be needed on all platforms, some would be peculiar to a KDE desktop and some might be obsolete (e.g. Nepomuk) or handled another way in KF5. Is there a plan to position and port them? Cheers, Ian W.
