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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE backward compatibility issue
From:       Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2015-01-30 17:04:03
Message-ID: 4724008.3c31oIdAxk () martin-thinkpad
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On Friday 30 January 2015 19:58:04 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 30 January 2015 11:41:42 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> >> I've read [1] and [2] and as far as I understand, dropping xembed
> >> support was more political decision than technical difficulty.
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> > I am sorry to say that you did understand wrong. It was mostly a
> > technical decision. You are free to port the old code over if you
> > believe it is an easy task.
> > 
> > If you want to discuss further, please use the plasma-devel list,
> > because kde-devel is actually the wrong list.
> 
> Well, to workaround the issue mentioned in [1] it's possible to
> implement a plasma widget which reserves some space with
> QtQuick and then creates borderless window for a legacy tray on top of
> reserved space. Not a beautiful solution, but it's a way to go. And
> it's possible to drop this widget as soon as all apps are ported to
> Status Notifier.

Patches welcome. If you think it's important and that trivial you should be 
able to do it, right?

Cheers
Martin Gräßlin, the author of the linked blog posts.
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