From kde-core-devel Thu Feb 22 09:13:01 2007 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:13:01 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: organizing kdebase Message-Id: <20070222091301.GA4569 () ugly ! local> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=117213559231168 On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:17:27PM -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > workspace > ======= > > libs: > kdmlib -> kdm/lib, greeter classes > i don't like this idea - otherwise i had done it in the first place. ;) the greeter plugins are needed by both kdm and kdesktop_lock (whatever it becomes now). putting it under kdm/ makes compiling it without kdm much harder. but i wouldn't be opposed to renaming the dir once dmlib moves into workspace/lib/ (or whatever it was). > utils > === > kdialog (bring your scripts to life with kdialog[tm]) > kioclient (kio ops that were previously in kfmclient) > kquitapp (quit an application via IPC) > kreadconfig (read and write kconfig entries via the command line) > kstart (handy utility to start applications in various states) > solidshell (command line utility for interacting with hardware via solid) > these are really backend tools usually used from scripts, some of them critical to workspace. lumping them together with "pure 'user' tools" like kdebugdialog just does not feel right. they are more like runtime/utils/ or something. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.