From kde-core-devel Wed Apr 18 23:43:11 2001 From: Dawit Alemayehu Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:43:11 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Are there any plans to create a CVS module for plugins ? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98763844208697 On Wednesday 18 April 2001 18:30, Cullmann Christoph wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2001 10:11, Cullmann Christoph wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2001 18:47 schrieb David Faure: > > > On Wednesday 18 April 2001 17:35, Cullmann Christoph wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2001 15:42 schrieb Cullmann Christoph: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Kate supports now plugins too (like konqueror). > > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to add a cvs module kdeextra or > > > > > kdeplugins for konqueror (which are located at kdenonbeta) kate and > > > > > any other plugins (perhaps extra kcontrol center modules )? > > > > > > > > If we call it kdeextra or kdeplus it would be the right place for > > > > extra kioslave and such things. > > > > > > Since I only suggested this privately, I want to said publically that I > > > support this idea. > > > >I was told to offer my support for this idea. So I vote for "kdeaddons". Hi, I guess I will be the lone dissenter then on this issue. My primary problem with this is that all that is being changed is that some of the non-essential, but perhaps useful packages are all being lumped together into one large package. This is probably very convenient from our (developer/maintainers) point of view. Specially for the person responsible for this package. However, I cannot see how this is going to benefit the user who just wants to say get one of the konqueror plugins ? (S)He will be forced to download the whole package just to get a single io-slave or plugin or whatever. This has been one of the biggest complaints by users about upgrading KDE and the reason I was asking for putting all the io-slaves into one package on its own and asking user to download it separately. For example, kdelibs can come only with the file io-slave and all the others will be packaged into two other kioslave packages, kioslave-basic and kioslave-extra or some similar name. Then we can put ftp, http, pop, man, help and any other io-slaves to be used by most people into the basic package and remaining ones will go into the kioslave-extra package. I know the above setup will mean new dependencies for packagers and probably a PAT to originally adapt, but it will be mostly beneficial to the end user as (s)he will only need to update the necessary package for bug fixes in io-slaves or plugins or new icons or wallpapers etc etc. Anyways, what I am getting at is that packaging addons or non-essential plugins etc into one large package IMHO is the wrong approach. Just my $0.02 worth. Regards, Dawit A.