Applications/17.12 repo drop list kdelibs4

Repos WITHOUT frameworks branch which CAN be dropped

jovie

text to speech daemon

• Ignore. it is meant to be replaced by QtSpeech; see few blog posts from jpwhiting:
  • https://jpwhiting.blogspot.cz/2015/02/qtspeech-progress.html
  • https://jpwhiting.blogspot.cz/2014/10/accessibility-is-alive-qtspeech.html

ksaneplugin

• Not important, let it die
  • https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2017-August/010540.html

Repos WITHOUT frameworks branch

kaccessible

• Question: Do we need this or Qt5 accessibility is all we need in this regard?
  • Qt5 provides by default a bridge from the Qt accessibility API to At-Spi, so the current suggested solution for having an screen reader is using orca.

kppp

• One user "complained" at Gardening mailing list
  • https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-gardening/2017-July/000142.html
  • can't Network Manager / Modem Manager do this?
    • [tosky] No, there is an open feature request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348330
• Who do we ask if they want to port it?

kremotecontrol

Frontend for remote controls

• Who do we ask if they want to port it?
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • Anyone else?

• There was already a thread on kde-utils-devel (https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-utils-devel/2017-July/004049.html) to move it to unmaintained.

kfilereplace

Utility to assist with bulk file renaming

• Who do we ask if they want to port it?
  • [scarpino] I can do the port if none step up.

klinkstatus

Tool to check the current status of links in a web page

• Who do we ask if they want to port it?
  • [cfeck] As far as I remember, the original author (Paulo) was interested to do (or help with) the port
  • [tosky] unfortunately he can't help with the port right now

Repos WITH frameworks branch

juk

Music player

• Who do we ask if they want to port it?
  • mpyne reached out to github.com/KapiX/juk/commits/kf5, imported it as "frameworks" and started cleaning it.

kget

• What is the status?
  • [mrnhmath] unfinished, some work done

kimagemapeditor

• What is the status?
  • [tosky] mostly working, requires some testing from people who used it more than me; a lot of kdelibs4support to be removed, but not a blocker

kmouth

• Master branch is KF5-based as of now, needs testing
  • Past discussion about the stability of QtSpeech: discussed on the distribution list; apparently going stable with Qt 5.10.

kolf

• What is the status?
  • [tosky] it seems to be working; Frederik Schwarzer expressed some concerns while reviewing kdelibs4-based games about the embedded copy of Box2D, maybe it can be removed, but maybe it's not a blocker for merging frameworks into master.

kopete

• for some reason branch is called kf5
• What is the status?

kscd

• for some reason branch is called kf5
• What is the status?
  • [tosky] mostly working, but requires more restesting; there is a pending patch for musicbrainz5 support, which is not strictly a blocker, but it should be cleaned (some cmake files can be rewritten in a simpler way, or reimported from their newer versions, or shared): https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127196/

ksirk

• Master branch is KF5-based as of now, needs testing

palapeli

• What is the status?
  • [tosky] it starts, but tiles are not loaded; debug needed
    • [stikonas] one of the problems is due to the use of palapeli:// prefixes for file locations. QStandardPaths wouldn't work with it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the only problem, I still wasn't able to get it to slice puzzles after I removed those.
  • [stikonas] It starts now and tiles are loaded.
  • issues solved, frameworks was merged into master on September 1st

sweeper

• What is the status?

One review is open (https://phabricator.kde.org/D5677), after that the frameworks branch should be ready for merging into master.

Frameworks branch was merged to master on 26 Aug.

zeroconf-ioslave

• What is the status?
  • [tosky] Found a way to test thanks to avahi-publish (zeroconf-ioslave recognizes webdav, ssh, sftp, ftp, and nfs).
  • frameworks merged into master on August 28th.

Weird repos

kmix

KF5 is in master but not default

• Can we make KF5 default?
  • [tosky] a lot of work went into the pure KF5 branch ("frameworks") lately. With the last fixes by Jonathan Marten it should work; testing needed.
  • [asturm] long-term testing (alsa, no pulseaudio) has revealed no issues for me.

umbrello

KF5 is in master, but also has kdelibs4 code

• Can we remove kdelibs4 code?