Il giorno Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:06:49 +0200
Rüdiger Meier
IMO it's a pity that so many nice applications are bundled with KDE.
KDE is not a desktop environment (for the n!th time). It is a community that develops software. Many applications do not require Plasma (the DE) and in fact run fine on other DEs or WMs (there's a percentage of bug reports coming from users that don't use Plasma). That was the whole point of modularization of the libraries (KDE Frameworks 5) and splitting the DE (Plasma) from the applications (Applications). They're not even released on the same schedule.
When I was more into it (many years ago) I've had the impression that KDE wants to sponge up any existing Qt based apps.
Most lower-tier Frameworks have just Qt dependencies and nothing else. They can be used fine without adding any other high-level component (again, one of the reasons of the modularization). There's more than that, but we're going off-topic. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team GPG key ID: A29D259B