On 2024-12-17 15:53, Carl Schwan wrote:
Hi,
Considering that all of our apps are relying on breeze and on platform
outside of Plasma, this is even a
required dependency, I think breeze should be a tier 3 framework and
not be part of Plasma. The idea
is not new and this was on the KF6 board:
https://phabricator.kde.org/T12611
There are some advantages:
- Ensuring that styling changes in Breeze, Kirigami and
qqc2-desktop-style are synchronized as they are on
the same release cycle
- Don't have apps depend on a Plasma component when compiled for
Windows and macOS
- Apps can now rely on some new behavior of breeze with either
depending a specific minimum version of
framework or using ifdefs
There is also a few issues first which need to be resolved first:
- Licensing: Breeze is GPL but framework is LGPL. Honestly I would just
ignore it and make it clear in the
repo that Breeze is an exception to the LGPL rule, so that no one use
it under the wrong license by mistake
- Not everything in the breeze repo belong to framework. Notably:
- Wallpapers: probably should be plasma-workspace as they are used
by both plasma mobile and plasma
desktop.
- Window decoration: probably should be moved to KDecoration so
that the KDecoration provides also a
default style. Seeing how the past few merge requests regarding
the window decoration in breeze were
closely linked to other changes in KDecoration. This probably
would make sense even if we end up keeping
breeze in plasma.
- Colors: these were already moved to KColorScheme, so we could
remove the duplication one way or the
other.
I strongly support that, we need ot for most of the applications on
other platforms, it is very strange to rely on that one Plasma part
there and having it in sync with Frameworks releases is nice for apps,
too.
Greetings
Christoph
Cheers,
Carl
