Definition of Frameworks and Platform

In our communication we want to use Frameworks, since this communicates the modularity of our libraries better than the term "platform", which gives a more monolithic, either-or impression.

Framework

Useful as separate library
platform independent

Platform

not necessarily portable
...

What needs work here?

The following list gives an idea of some problems we see with splitting up our frameworks:

1) needs sycoca
2) uses mimetype/xdg
3) uses kded
4) kglobal used, but only for ref/deref (which can maybe move into Qt)
5) uses kglobal (in a non-trivial way)
6) uses kaboutdata
7) should be optional
8) duplicates functionality in Qt
9) should move into its own library

Framework or Platform in kdelibs

The list below indicates our _intended_ situation.

Frameworks

Functional

kdecore
- compression 2)
- date 3), 8)
- io 2), 5)
- jobs 4)
- kaboutdata 7)
- sonnet 9)
- kshareddatacache
dnssd
kdeui (most items are unclear, only listing clear ones here)
- itemviews

Integration

kdecore
- auth
- kconfig 1), 8)
kate
kdeui (most items are unclear, only listing clear ones here)
- windowmanagement

Where does that go?

kdecore
- kernel - needs splitting up and further investigation

Platform

Platform bits with annotations

klocale 8)
ssl/ktcpsocket 8)
services 8) (investigate with dfaure)
ktrader 8) (investigate with dfaure)

Platform bits without

kded
kglobal
kcomponentdata
sycoca
kdesu
kwebkit

Trash

kdecore/text

Don't know / undecided

kdecore/util
kfile