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Subject:    Re: To reduce JuK dependencies on KDE frameworks?
From:       Shubham Chaudhary <shubhamchaudhary92 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-10-05 13:32:17
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Hi Petko,

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  (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
> 
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Regards,
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hi \
Petko,</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:53 \
PM, Petko Ditchev <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pditchev@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">pditchev@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br> <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi \
, I&#39;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&#39;s awesome that the playlists are kept intact and not imported in \
some imaginary app-specific .xml) .<br>

 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&#39;t be easily \
replaced by pure Qt) ? I&#39;m willing to start a Qt port , if the anwser \
is no , and there&#39;s a general consensus that it would be beneficial for \
the project (I&#39;m pretty sure it will be) .<br> \
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><span \
style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">AFAIK there is an \
ongoing effort lead by Martin Sandsmark </span><span \
style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">to port JuK completely \
away from KDE3 support libraries to allow it to be </span><span \
style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ported to the Qt5-based \
KDE libraries. It seems to have trailed off last year</span><font \
face="arial, sans-serif"> though, and I&#39;ve been told that it&#39;s \
quite a difficult task. I CCed Martin this. He might be able to shed some \
more light on this matter.</font></div> <div> </div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
 <br>
A side question (just out of curiosity ,I&#39;m not really able to \
implement such stuff yet) - has someone thought about plugin support?<br> \
<br> Petko<br>
<br>
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target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/<u></u>listinfo/kde-multimedia</a><br>
 </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- \
<br><br>Regards,<br>Shubham Chaudhary - <a \
href="http://about.me/shubhamchaudhary">http://about.me/shubhamchaudhary</a><br>
 </div></div>



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