Am Montag 29 Juli 2013, 12.12:09 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt: Morning Boud and Co
Great to read what you're planning for the coming months. And the question below is just for the case ... I how close relation/communication are you with the KF5 developers. I've the feeling that quite some things below are about similar topics they had/have as well. So just to ensure that there is no doubled work. > Technical Issues when Porting Calligra to Qt5.1 > > * cmake > > CMake for KF5 is in a state of flux. In my branch, I just copied what was > needed to make Calligra work. That's not very clean -- but the "right" way > to use cmake seems to keep changing all the time :-(. > > * plugins > > Sebastian Kuegler has a number of patches on reviewboard that make porting > plugins from the old KDE style to the new Qt style a breeze. We need to > investigate whether we can reuse that work without dragging in all of KF5 > or Qt 5.2. > > * qt vs kde > > There are a lot of places where we can port directly from a KDE class to a > Qt class. In other places, we will lose some functionality if we go with a > Qt-only solution (like file dialogs). On the other hand, in many cases > that will improve portability of Calligra to Windows, OSX and Android. I > am really in favour of going Qt-only as much as possible for that reason. > > This means no new uses of KLineEdit, KComboBox etc. > > * kdefakes > > The kdefakes library as started by Sebastian Sauer needs be expanded to be > more than a set of fake headers. for instance... > > * xmlgui > > Unless we re-implement (or clone from e.g. Qt Creator) the shortcut editor > and menu merging parts of xmlgui, we will need the xmlgui framework. See > my other mail for how much that drags in. Or we can copy the relevant > classes to kokdefakes... > > * kparts > > Plan and Kexi really use KParts, it seems. This is a bit of a porting > nightmare. > > * Optional KDE dependencies: > > - kross: for optional scripting plugins > - kdepim integration (the kdepim api's we use have been deprecated for > half a decade, but we never fixed that...) > - kio: heavily dependent on dbus to function, it's a problem already on > Windows and OSX. It's integration with qwidget is a problem on all mobile > platforms. I propose to stop using kio. > > * cleanup moc-includes > > > Appendix: > > List of KDE headers included in Calligra (243 items) > > #include <k3command.h> [snip] Best regards Mario _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
