From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 25 17:37:47 2014
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:37:47 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Review Request 120363: proposal to use the NOGUI switch in CMake files to set the default value 
Message-Id: <3202919.rAU4uXWpfn () tjmaciei-mobl4>
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On Thursday 25 September 2014 13:32:41 Ren=E9 J.V. Bertin wrote:
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>=20
> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and kdelibs.
>=20
>=20
> Repository: kdelibs
>=20
>=20
> Description
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>=20
> Applications can be defined in their CMake file as being `NOGUI`, but=
 until
> now this has had very limited effect. Especially on OS X, those
> applications can still construct a minimal GUI and thus have "visual
> presence" in the Dock and application switcher (and have a menubar as=

> well).
>=20
> This patch proposes to define a preprocessor token, `KDE_WITHOUT_GUI`=
, for
> those targets, and uses that token to set the default value for the
> `GUIenabled` option of the `KApplication` and `KUniqueApplication` cl=
asses.
>=20
> This could potentially be combined on OS X with the CoreFoundation ca=
ll that
> turns a running application into an "agent" (see
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120354).

Note that this change can't apply to a Qt5-based build since QApplicati=
on no=20
longer has that extra parameter.

Are we sure we want to add a new feature that is Qt4-only and has a sho=
rt=20
lifetime?
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