Re: Kopete & KF5

Thanks,
R.Harish Navnit
The Enigma


On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:52 PM, R.Harish Navnit
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pali,
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:30 PM, 4ernov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello, Pali,
>>
>> Unfortunately, I didn't work at it since the previous time we
>> discussed new changes (the beginning of summer, I believe). So, the
>> state of port is like: the main code is generally ported by Harish, I
>> fixed a couple of plugins, so there's some other plugins remaining (as
>> we've discussed the previous time) and it would also require some
>> efforts on sorting out icons, themes etc., as there're plenty of
>> warnings of duplicated icons, changed CMake notation etc. It seems to
>> be simple, but a big careful task to look at Breeze and Oxygen themes
>> to see, if there's now global icon for some internal Kopete icon for
>> action.
>>
>> I planned to do these main remaining measures this autumn, still keep
>> postponing starting it, but hopefully I'll look at it during a couple
>> of weeks next, at least in terms of code of the remaining plugins.
>>
>> As for the future, I must admit, I nearly lost the motivation to write
>> for any Qt and KDE-related projects. I mean, Kopete is really great
>> project and worked flawlessly for me for many years, as well as few
>> other KDE-based projects, which I love, but recent changes in Qt, KDE
>> and the style if their development make me really upset and quite
>> sceptical about their future. So, I'm afraid, I wouldn't be able to
>> contribute to Kopete as well.
>>
>> 2016-10-22 13:44 GMT+03:00 Pali Rohár <[email protected]>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> what is current state of effort on porting Kopete to KF5?
> Sadly, I too haven't had the chance to work on the kopete codebase
> ever since Alexey volunteered to help and I don't see that changing
> anytime soon either, as I'm now employed and no longer a student with
> lots of free time. The only time I might get to do KDE related work
> would be during the weekends and frankly that's not really ideal.
>
> Having said that, Kopete is not that far from getting ported. I
> remember porting the main libraries(libkopete and kopete) to KF5 and
> almost all, if not all, plugins were ported too. The kopete protocols
> probably need some porting. Alexey did port Jabber and Oscar protocols
> IIRC and a few others are already broken, so you wouldn't get down to
> porting them anyways.
>
> I do hope kopete gets ported to KF5 soon. Perhaps it might be a good
> idea to publish them as tasks for this edition of the Season of KDE or
> the upcoming GSoC, as long as we're able to find mentors for the same.
> The other option would be that the currently active developers get
> together at a sprint or organize one and finish the port. Even if a
> small group of people work on the port for say a week, I'm sure that'd
> lead to kopete getting ported to KF5 by the end of the event.
>
> Again, I put forward these suggestions but I'm not sure how feasible
> they might be. My 2 cents here.
And here's a task board I had created back when I was working on the
port : https://trello.com/b/LdlllzRL/kopete-kf5-port
It's not really updated now but it might still be useful to someone
who wishes to take this forward.


Cheers,
Harish