From kde-multimedia Sat Oct 05 13:32:17 2013 From: Shubham Chaudhary Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:32:17 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: To reduce JuK dependencies on KDE frameworks? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=138097923528349 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============6875028780280356040==" --===============6875028780280356040== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ffbae5bb3729d04e7fe47e6 --e89a8ffbae5bb3729d04e7fe47e6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Petko, On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Petko Ditchev wrote: > Hi , I'm not really a KDE user , but I found out that JuK is pretty much > the best player out there for the linux desktop (at least for my needs - > it's awesome that the playlists are kept intact and not imported in some > imaginary app-specific .xml) . > So , on-topic : when I installed JuK with all deps it was ~200MB . Also I > believe the KDE runtime services are required . So the question is - are > there that many bindings to the KDE frameworks (that can't be easily > replaced by pure Qt) ? I'm willing to start a Qt port , if the anwser is no > , and there's a general consensus that it would be beneficial for the > project (I'm pretty sure it will be) . > AFAIK there is an ongoing effort lead by Martin Sandsmark to port JuK completely away from KDE3 support libraries to allow it to be ported to the Qt5-based KDE libraries. It seems to have trailed off last year though, and I've been told that it's quite a difficult task. I CCed Martin this. He might be able to shed some more light on this matter. > > A side question (just out of curiosity ,I'm not really able to implement > such stuff yet) - has someone thought about plugin support? > > Petko > > ______________________________**_________________ > kde-multimedia mailing list > kde-multimedia@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/kde-multimedia > -- Regards, Shubham Chaudhary - http://about.me/shubhamchaudhary --e89a8ffbae5bb3729d04e7fe47e6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at= 5:53 PM, Petko Ditchev <pditchev@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi , I'm not really a KDE user , but I found out that = JuK is pretty much the best player out there for the linux desktop =A0(at l= east for my needs - it's awesome that the playlists are kept intact and= not imported in some imaginary app-specific .xml) .
=A0So , on-topic : when I installed JuK with all deps it was ~200MB . Also = I believe the KDE runtime services are required . So the question is - are = there that many bindings to the KDE frameworks (that can't be easily re= placed by pure Qt) ? I'm willing to start a Qt port , if the anwser is = no , and there's a general consensus that it would be beneficial for th= e project (I'm pretty sure it will be) .

AFAIK there is an ongoing effort lead by Martin Sandsmark= =A0to po= rt JuK completely away from KDE3 support libraries to allow it to be=A0ported to th= e Qt5-based KDE libraries. It seems to have trailed off last year=A0though, and=A0I've=A0been told that it= 's quite a difficult task. I CCed Martin this. He might be able to shed= some more light on this matter.
=A0

A side question (just out of curiosity ,I'm not really able to implemen= t such stuff yet) - has someone thought about plugin support?

Petko

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