On Saturday, May 21, 2016 8:18:15 PM CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Hi, > > We've talked about doing something about the various components in > plasma-desktop that would make sense outside of full-blown Plasma sessions. > > I've been keeping that in mind, and the other day my Linux install (which I > maintain in a parallel prefix using the same packaging scripts as I use on > OS X) made me realise that plasma-desktop also provides components that > would be useful for those providing KF5 as an optional "suite" for use with > a completely different desktop environment that still runs under X11. > > Either way, I've come up with a couple of patches (the > patch-disable-unwanted* at > https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/kf5/kf5-plasma-desktop/files) > which represent an initial approach at evaluating what builds and what > makes sense on a ~Plasma desktop, X11 or OS X (or MS Windows, presumably).
I'm against any patches to plasma-desktop to make it compile on other platforms. There should not be any need to have anything from plasma-desktop on non Plasma platforms. If there is indeed a KCM which makes sense to have on other platforms then it was incorrectly positioned and needs to be moved out of plasma-desktop. Applications should not depend on the desktop. If an application cannot be configured without a KCM provided by plasma-desktop than we have a clear bug and that needs fixing. Please note that I don't consider shipping KCMs to make your own QPT plugin work a valid use case. In my opinion KDE applications should follow the native style on OSX. With that the need for KCMs from plasma-desktop should be non- existent. Cheers Martin
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