On Saturday, 23 May 2020 02:49:57 CEST Aleix Pol wrote: > I was looking through some Plasma code and I saw that we have some > fairly old emoticons KCM using KF5Emoticons. > > Now while I know why this exists, it feels like it's more of a thing > of the past from when people wrote :) instead of 🙂. While keeping it > around for the few apps that might still use it (ktp? kopete?) could > make sense, I'm afraid it's probably making it confusing for the users > who expect this to actually allow them to customise their 🙂 but > won't. > > Do you think it would make sense to deprecate the framework and remove the > KCM?
Absolutely! There's some discussion on this topic in https://phabricator.kde.org/T11585 already. While direct usage of KEmoticons in applications is rare, there is a "backdoor dependency" via a KCoreAddons plug-in it provides. Regards, Volker
