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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GRUB Configuration Application/KCModule
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-08-12 17:57:55
Message-ID: g7siv4$uko$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Konstantinos Smanis wrote:
> Since I moved this application from Qt4->KDE4 libs, I frequently had requests 
> to integrate it in System Settings (thus, create a KCModule out of it). 
> However, there is no counterpart for the other Desktop Enviroments (mainly 
> GNOME) and this is the reason I have been sticking with the application for a 
> while (asking a GNOME user to install kdebase just for this utility wouldn't 
> be very polite, right? - they seem to tolerate kdelibs more :)
>
> Consequently, I just want some advice about what I should do to make this 
> KApplication->KCModule conversion easier. Is it somehow possible to make the 
> UI "portable" so that it could fit both on the KCModule and the KApplication? 

Well, kcmshell is in kdebase/runtime, which is supposed to be installed 
for any KDE bits anyway (e.g. it also contains the icons). So I think 
what you could do is just make it a KCModule, and use kcmshell to 
present it as "stand-alone" (you could provide a .desktop to launch it 
thusly).

-- 
Matthew
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