Plasma's panel depends on "kephal/screens.h" to build. However, this is not header is not exported during building. This means, unless you have a KDE source tree on-hand, you cannot buld the panel. This is fine if you are just trying to build the default panel, since you wouldn't do that out of the normal source tree.
The problem becomes when someone wants to work on a third-party panel based on the default panel. They can't do it without first reworking the parts the depend on kephal, and it is not immediately obvious how you would do so. I think if the goal is to have people working on their own versions that implement niche features, which has been the justification for rejecting a number of bugs and patches in various parts of plasma, then I think these sorts of barriers to entry serve as a strong discouragement to people who otherwise would want to make a slight variation on the existing panel. I think it would be worthwhile if all plasma containments and applets were designed in such a way that they could easily be built from outside the KDE source tree as long as the appropriate development packages are installed. This will make it much easier for people to jump in and start making their own variants of the software. Headers needed to build these components should either be public or should be changed to something that is. -Todd _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
