From kde-core-devel  Thu Feb 22 16:25:33 2007
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:25:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: organizing kdebase
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On February 22, 2007, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:17:27PM -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > workspace
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >
> > 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.=20

really? just do what i did with plasma/lib: put it in=20
workspace/CMakeLists.txt. voila!

> but i wouldn't be opposed to renaming the dir once dmlib=20
> moves into workspace/lib/ (or whatever it was).

ok, so we will at least call it libkdm to keep it consistent. we'll still h=
ave=20
to see about moving it into kdm/lib ...

> > utils
> > =3D=3D=3D
> > 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 soli=
d)
>
> these are really backend tools usually used from scripts, some of them
> critical to workspace.

which are critical to workspace? and by 'critical' i mean: applications wil=
l=20
start to function poorly, not 'but we are really used to having them there=
=20
and some user depend on them for day to day work'. the latter is why they a=
re=20
in kdebase.

> lumping them together with "pure 'user' tools" like=20
> kdebugdialog just does not feel right. they are more like runtime/utils/
> or something.

what applications use them? according to my research: none.

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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