On 20 August 2012 02:15, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > > That's a packaging decision. The Plasmate should depend on the plasma > tools.
The Plasmate IDE will depend on the plasma tools, either if they are in the kde-workspace or in the plasmate repo. > > From a technical point of view, > > those are a few issues for which we have to move the plasma tools inside > > plasmate, > > 1. How can someone embed a binary inside a qwidget? > > Example: How can I embed the binary named plasmoidviewer inside > plasmate's > > MainWindow::CentralContainer::CentralContainer?? > I'm unsure what you mean. You can embed a plasma view. You won't ever > embed the plasmoidviewer, maybe you can compile the same code twice, > but it's not the same! > > > > > 2. Some tools when they are used as standalone applications require a few > > extra ui stuff. > > Example: when I execute plasmaremoteinstaller from plasmate I have a > known > > source directory for my plasmoid(thanks to plasmate), but when > > I execute it as a standalone application I don't., so I need an extra > > kurlrequester. How can I hide a kurlrequester from a binary? > Well, you can add arguments to the binary, for example. > > > > > 3. duplication of code, plasmoidviewer vs plasma-previewer > You can expose a library. I believe that the idea of moving the tools is much more better than those workarounds. > >> Everyone who has been using these tools so far, has done so without > >> Plasmate, so there's definitely a use case outside Plasmate. > > > > > > When you say "plasmate" do you refer to the ide named plasmate or the > > repository? > The IDE. Those tools will still be accessible as standalone applications, so we still leave this use case alive. > It's not really what I was saying. > > What I said is that people will keep using Kate, KDevelop, QtCreator, > emacs, vim or whatever they want to create their plasmoids. You're > imposing a dependency by neglecting the current users of those tool. I > think that's generally not good. Can you explain to me how I will manage that? If I move those tools to the plasmate repo, why the life of those people will get worst? Is it because they will have to build one more repo which needs 1 minute? -- Giorgos Tsiapaliokas (terietor) KDE Developer terietor.gr
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