On pondělí 23. října 2017 13:57:52 CEST David Edmundson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Jan Grulich <jgrul...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I added myself to "Connection" KCM if you don't mind, > > Awesome. I hoped you would :) > > > but I have a question. > > Do you expect that all KCMs will be completely rewritten in QML? > > I expect 3 years from now they will all be. > I'd be surprsied if it was much sooner.
3 years from now, that's doable and I believe that even sooner, I was just pointing out that it's not something possible for Plasma 5.12 or maybe not also for Plasma 5.13, but I'll do my best as usual. > > I'm just > > afraid that rewriting the editor part into QML will be more than a long > > process. There is so many kind of connections, not even mentioning VPNs, > > with > > tons of possible properties. If you do expect it to be completely written > > in > > QML, we will have to probably find some compromise or give it more time. > > If > > the editor part can still be QWidget based, then according to the mockup > > it > > shouldn't really be a problem to change it as the code base is quite ready > > for > > that. > > Problem is we also need network management in the phone UI stack, and > that's needed in the shorter-medium term. Maybe in this specific case > that's safest happening in parallel separate from the current KCM code. As I already wrote in another mail thread, I have a student [1] working on this. He's not that active as I would like him to be and not progressing really much, but he is supposed to finish in ~2 months so I expect he will start soon heavily working on this as his deadline is approaching. [1] - https://github.com/MartinKacej/plasma-nm
