Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 12:20:43 Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : > > If I am not mistaken, kde workspace and plasma active are developed in > > different repositories, > > kde-runtime is also developed in a different repository. so is folderview, > which is definitely part of KDE Workspaces; it's also in Plasma Desktop, but > not Plasma Active. where something is developed depends on a number of > factors: how it is packaged, what its dependencies are, development > conveniences .. etc. > > when you consider that QML bindings which are now critical to all the > Workspaces are in kde-runtime, folderview is in kdebase-apps and only > relevant to Desktop and Netbook, that the DataEngines in kde-workspace are > critical to all Workspaces, that the QML components in kde-runtime were > developed first in plasma-mobile and then migrated there when they were > ready for wide use so we can use them in all Workspaces .... it becomes > apparent that repository structure does not beget the technical design.
As I answered to Sebas, I was not aiming at charting technical design, but rather at identifying products and how they are grouped. > > and target different devices. > > so does Netbook, but it's in kde-workspace. True, the argument they target different devices is not relevant and should be ignored. Nevertheless, from a product point-of-view, KDE SC ships (among other products) two Plasma workspaces, Plasma Active ships another one. To the end- user (and I guess the new developer) they are different products. Which developers work on which products is orthogonal to the fact they are different products: when someone talks to me about KDE SC, KDE Workspace, or Plasma Active, I care about what technical artefacts (as in binaries, libraries, components, data assets) those terms encompass, not who wrote the code (unless I got it completely wrong and the "Plasma Active" term designates a community of developers, just like the "KDE" term now does) Aurélien _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
