Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday 09 February 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 February 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote: > >> Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> > On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Harri Porten wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> >> > we could end up wit

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen Kelly
Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote: >> Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Harri Porten wrote: >> >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> >> > we could end up with a "new kdelibs" module that contains just the >> >> > core st

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday 09 February 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Harri Porten wrote: > >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> > we could end up with a "new kdelibs" module that contains just the > >> > core stuff such as kdecore, kdeui, kio ..

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen Kelly
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Harri Porten wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > we could end up with a "new kdelibs" module that contains just the core >> > stuff such as kdecore, kdeui, kio .. there could be requirements in >> > there about allowable de

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Harri Porten wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > we could end up with a "new kdelibs" module that contains just the core > > stuff such as kdecore, kdeui, kio .. there could be requirements in > > there about allowable dependencies between those libr

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Harri Porten
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: we could end up with a "new kdelibs" module that contains just the core stuff such as kdecore, kdeui, kio .. there could be requirements in there about allowable dependencies between those libraries. [...] the big change here would be that applications

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > I can remember that a point of criticism about gnome was that it is hard to > get it built correctly with all the relatively small independent libs. > I think we are moving in that direction... > Are we aware of this and is this ok with us ?

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Maksim Orlovich wrote: > On 2/1/11, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > On 01.02.11 19:49:10, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > > No, the natural fix is to make the dependency chain proper, i.e. KTE > > depends on kdelibs, khtml depends on KTE+kdelibs. That means khtml > > canno

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Maksim Orlovich
On 2/1/11, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 01.02.11 19:49:10, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > No, the natural fix is to make the dependency chain proper, i.e. KTE > depends on kdelibs, khtml depends on KTE+kdelibs. That means khtml > cannot be part of kdelibs anymore if KTE is not part of kdelibs anymore.

Re: Installing specific packages on demand (was: Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository)

2011-02-01 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:39, Sune Vuorela a écrit: >> On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: >> >> And I'm not sure there should be >> >> such a thing. >> > >> > Hm. You don't agree that a user experience like >> > >>

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 01.02.11 19:49:10, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > A Dimarts, 1 de febrer de 2011, Ian Monroe va escriure: > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 21:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > >[snip] > > > > > > > > oh well, KTextEditor isn't an option, > > > > >

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 01.02.11 19:49:10, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > A Dimarts, 1 de febrer de 2011, Ian Monroe va escriure: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 21:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > >[snip] > > > > > > oh well, KTextEditor isn't an option, > > > > Should we give up so easily on this? The whole point of modulariz

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dimarts, 1 de febrer de 2011, Ian Monroe va escriure: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 21:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >[snip] > > > > oh well, KTextEditor isn't an option, > > Should we give up so easily on this? The whole point of modularization > is to remove cross-module dependencies, just like KHT

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 20:14, Alexander Neundorf a écrit: > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:42, Alexander Neundorf a écrit: > > > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > > > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:42, Alexander Neundorf a écrit: > > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:53, Sune Vuorela a écrit: > > > > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kosseb

Re: Installing specific packages on demand (was: Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository)

2011-02-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > We can't assume for all, but in many installations the user does. Like the > ususal private computer. > For administrated systems, there could be a substitute which instead of > allowing to install rather aids the user to file a request to the adm

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:42, Alexander Neundorf a écrit: > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:53, Sune Vuorela a écrit: > > > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > > > Uh, that is old-fashioned. Should instead ask the

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > On 01.02.11 01:18:58, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > Alle martedì 1 febbraio 2011, Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > > > > > The concern that I have, on the other hand, is whether this can be > > > >

Installing specific packages on demand (was: Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository)

2011-02-01 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:39, Sune Vuorela a écrit: > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > >> And I'm not sure there should be > >> such a thing. > > > > Hm. You don't agree that a user experience like > > > > "Sorry, missing X to do Y. Would you like to get X now for that?"

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Tuesday, 2011-02-01, Christoph Cullmann wrote: ... > > Yeah, and because of this requirement, which I can agree on, I didn't > > remove it from kdelibs, as its public API and I wanted to be SC + BC. And > > no, runtime components moving to othe

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:53, Sune Vuorela a écrit: > > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > > Uh, that is old-fashioned. Should instead ask the user whether she > > > wants to install the proper text editor module.

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: >> And I'm not sure there should be >> such a thing. > > Hm. You don't agree that a user experience like > "Sorry, missing X to do Y. Would you like to get X now for that?" > is better than one à la > "Na, no way to do Y."? Yes. since we

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:53, Sune Vuorela a écrit: > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > Uh, that is old-fashioned. Should instead ask the user whether she wants > > to install the proper text editor module. Isn't there some simple > > standard api for that these days? > > A

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Ian Monroe
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 21:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >[snip] > oh well, KTextEditor isn't an option, Should we give up so easily on this? The whole point of modularization is to remove cross-module dependencies, just like KHTML depending on KTextEditor. Ideally this sort of "sideways" dependency

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-01, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > perhaps we should think about being more clear in our runtime definitions a= > nd=20 > stricter with requiring apps to advertise their runtime expectations, so th= > at=20 > we can go from having a huge pile of dependencies to just the requirements = > for=20

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Uh, that is old-fashioned. Should instead ask the user whether she wants to > install the proper text editor module. Isn't there some simple standard api > for that these days? A simple standard api for what? installations of scripts and wallpape

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Sune Vuorela wrote: > So far, we as packagers have been told that applications can expect all > plugins (kio slaves, kparts, ...) located in kdelibs and kdebase-runtime > to be available, and segfault is a acceptable way of handling missing > things. to boil it down t

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 16:43, Maksim Orlovich a écrit: > > erf; two dependencies in kdelibs on KTextEditor. ok, that makes it a no > > go then ... hm.. looking at it, only khtml has a build-time dependency > > on it. if > > the texteditor part isn't available (or the source of the crash even?

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Maksim Orlovich
> erf; two dependencies in kdelibs on KTextEditor. ok, that makes it a no go > then ... hm.. looking at it, only khtml has a build-time dependency on it. > if > the texteditor part isn't available (or the source of the crash even? :) > what > does the debugger do at that point? Pop up an error mes

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-01, Christoph Cullmann wrote: >> So far, we as packagers have been told that applications can expect all >> plugins (kio slaves, kparts, ...) located in kdelibs and kdebase-runtime >> to be available, and segfault is a acceptable way of handling missing >> things. > I agree that this wi

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday, 2011-02-01, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:11:08 am Sune Vuorela wrote: > > So far, we as packagers have been told that applications can expect all > > plugins (kio slaves, kparts, ...) located in kdelibs and kdebase-runtime > > to be available, and segfau

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Christoph Cullmann
On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:11:08 am Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2011-02-01, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > --nextPart3865859.bpjpIik9D5 > > Content-Type: Text/Plain; > > > > charset="us-ascii" > > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Michael Pyne

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-02-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-01, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > --nextPart3865859.bpjpIik9D5 > Content-Type: Text/Plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Michael Pyne wrote: >> On Monday, January 31, 2011 17:42:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > potential cav

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 01.02.11 01:18:58, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Alle martedì 1 febbraio 2011, Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > > > > The concern that I have, on the other hand, is whether this can be > > > > done in a source and binary compatible fashion. I just took

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-01-31 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 01.02.11 01:18:58, Pino Toscano wrote: > Alle martedì 1 febbraio 2011, Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > > > The concern that I have, on the other hand, is whether this can be > > > done in a source and binary compatible fashion. I just took a look > > > at > > > > yes, it can. and i don't believe a

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-01-31 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle martedì 1 febbraio 2011, Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > > The concern that I have, on the other hand, is whether this can be > > done in a source and binary compatible fashion. I just took a look > > at > > yes, it can. and i don't believe anything in kdelibs itself uses it. khtml does (but we

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Michael Pyne wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011 17:42:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > potential caveats are that it makes it harder to build certain KDE apps > > because now you need not only kdelibs, but kate. this is already true for > > things that require libs in kde

Re: proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Pyne
On Monday, January 31, 2011 17:42:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > potential caveats are that it makes it harder to build certain KDE apps > because now you need not only kdelibs, but kate. this is already true for > things that require libs in kde-support, kdepimlibs or kdegraphics, though. This is mor

proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi :) since Ian already brought it up and suggested a separate thread for it, let me do just that. we discussed this a bit on the release mailing list, but the discussion really ought involve more people since it will impact us all. the idea is this (and the Kate devs are just fine with it, btw