From kde-core-devel Tue Jul 24 12:27:06 2007 From: Mosfet Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:27:06 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: State of kdefx Message-Id: <200707240727.06727.daniel.duley () verizon ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118535458230444 BTW: Remember I'm not on kde-core-devel so need to be CC'ed in order to see emails and reply properly. This is a reply to Zack's email which I read on the list archive ;-) ---- Hi Zack! That pretty much sounds like what we agreed on before, it's just the other developers weren't privy to our emails so were wondering what's up with KImageEffect ;-) So to summarize for everyone else: I got a lot of fixes for KImageEffect if needed - most of the methods have been rewritten *years ago* compared to what is in SVN and is chock full of neat stuff (TM). But Zack, (as well as several other developers), don't seem to like the API and have a lot of good new ideas. So the plan was to use Zack's new library and I'd port the things that are still relevant to it. It appears this won't be ready until KDE4.1, tho. That leaves the question about what to do about KDE4.0. Zack as well as everyone else seems to feel an effect library won't be needed but I am not sure about this. I don't know where the meme started that KImageEffect is only used by widget styles but that is not true. It's used by several applications both in and out of KDE SVN. Everyone here who is stating 99% of the library is not used by anything or only used by widget styles is wrong :P Anyways, I still think it should be removed from kdelibs if it is going to be replaced by Zack's library. In the meantime I can make an interm library with an API similiar to KImageEffect that people can use until KDE4.1. I already have this for my own projects - it's called "Blitz". When it's ready I can stick it on kde ftp or something. In the porting docs people can be directed to use that until KDE4.1 is released, then use the new library. Anyways, that's my 2cents.