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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: XWayland Video Bridge in kdereview
From:       Aleix Pol <aleixpol () kde ! org>
Date:       2023-07-04 23:11:51
Message-ID: CACcA1RoxUZjLbZ0zqSDgeS1jLURBRSFQmRsomwwr7P-6vnAXrw () mail ! gmail ! com
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I'm not so sure. Is the fact that it works on a non-Plasma system by
design or just a happy coincidence?

On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 3:03 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 7:09 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 10:01 AM Aleix Pol <aleixpol@kde.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 10:00 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> \
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I got this compiling on neon unstable.  Our kpipewire is qt6 so I'm \
> > > > not sure how that affects it.  I don't have a way to test it \
> > > > quickly though. \
> > > > https://build.neon.kde.org/job/jammy_unstable_neon-packaging_xwaylandvideobridge/
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The Qt 6 port is still ongoing:
> > > https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge/-/merge_requests/11
> > > 
> > > > How come it's in the system group on invent if you want it to be \
> > > > part of Plasma?
> > > 
> > > To be honest, the invent groups are a mystery to me.
> > 
> > 
> > That is of some degree of concern that you don't understand the \
> > groupings. 
> > For the most part the groups are intended to reflect to an extent how \
> > the software relates to each other. You will find all of the \
> > Educational software under Education for instance, and all Games in \
> > Games. Likewise, applications for handling images and other similar \
> > content are in Graphics, those that deal with video and audio are in \
> > Multimedia and libraries for use by other developers are in Libraries. 
> > All fairly straightforward I would have hoped.
> > 
> > The reason for the placement of the XWayland Video Bridge comes back to \
> > the initial ticket that requested it be moved from a personal \
> > repository - which you filed Aleix. This was targeting Graphics, which \
> > is clearly inappropriate as it would have put it alongside Krita and \
> > Digikam. For want of a better place as it was a bit of infrastructure / \
> > behind the scenes tooling it was therefore put in System. 
> > There was never any mention in the ticket that it was going to be \
> > exclusive to Plasma and not usable outside of a Plasma setting, hence \
> > why that was not considered. 
> 
> It is supposed to be useful outside of KDE Plasma too, so that
> assumption is correct.
> 
> 
> --
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