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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GRUB Configuration Application/KCModule
From:       Konstantinos Smanis <kon.smanis () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-08-13 8:15:22
Message-ID: 200808131115.22398.kon.smanis () gmail ! com
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On Tuesday 12 August 2008 20:57:55 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 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).

It sounds a reasonable solution. I think I'll follow this way.

Cheers
 
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