Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011 22:18:05 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2011 22:04:42 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011, 19:01:35 schrieb Ilya Chernykh:
> > > I remember an early interview or press-release by KDE4 team where
> > > they
> > > firmly insisted that kicker will never be ported to KDE4. Thus
> > > making KDE3 out of KDE4 will probably be against the will of the
> > > KDE4 team.> 
> > I don't get your argument. The only thing that it shows is that they
> > will not make your kicker port default.
>
> No, it was not about default settings, otherwise they would talk
> namely about default settings.

It's Free Software.  What the Kicker/KDesktop maintainer(s) said was 'we will 
never port kicker to KDE 4'.  You are free to do pretty much what you like 
with it, including porting it, maintaining it and giving Felix panel hide 
buttons with it.  I should think that if you are able to port KDE 3 from HAL 
to udev, a Qt4 port of the main parts of kicker should be easy for you.

> > But how can they hinder you to offer a plasmoid
> > that mimics kicker?
>
> Why there should be exactly plasmoid? Plasma does not use Qt4 style
> settings, and uses its own style, thus any plasma-based panel would look
> alien in Qt4-based environment. That said this idea is crippled by design.

It wouldn't have to be a plasmoid.  For reference look at Kor Testudo, a 
QWidget-based alternative KDE 4 shell that Lubos wrote to scratch his own 
itches:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kor+Testudo+Shell?content=126302

packaged in KDE:Unstable:Playground if you want to try it.

Will

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