Definition of Frameworks and Platformm

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

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

Frameworks which need changes

kdecore
- auth 1)
- compression 2)
- kconfig 1), 8)
- date 3), 8)
- io 2), 5)
- jobs 4)
- kernel - needs splitting up and further investigation
- kaboutdata 7)
- sonnet 9)

Frameworks which look fine

kdecore
- kshareddatacache
kate
dnssd

Platform

Trash

kdecore/text

Don't know / undecided

kdecore/util
kfile