Guidance porting to KDE 4

[Yuriy Kozlov]

Hi Nicolas,

I'm wondering what is the status of this project?  It'd be useful to
know for the Ubuntu Developer Summit this upcoming week.

~ Yuriy

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Nicolas Ternisien
<nicolas.ternisien at gmail.com> wrote:
> For information, the branch has been started here :
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/guidance/guidance-kde4/
>
> Nicolas
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Nicolas Ternisien
> <nicolas.ternisien at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi and thanks for your answers,
>>
>> The main goal of porting Guidance to KDE 4 is not to blindly integrate
>> all of its sub applications to the KDE Admin. The goal is to port the
>> applications that do not already cover something that the KDE main
>> tree don't do actually.
>>
>> Here is my opinion on each sub applications :
>>
>> displayconfig :
>> You are right, the displayconfig for example don't need to be ported,
>> as another project already do this in KDE.
>>
>> userconfig :
>> KUser and userconfig both look like a graphical editor for /etc/group
>> and /etc/passwd. In my opinion, userconfig misses only 2/3 features
>> that KUser has before being able to replace it. In my opinion,
>> userconfig could only be the start of an application that could be
>> improved, and it will be integrated only if KDE core developers think
>> it is sufficently powerful and have an interest. If the Fedora tool
>> has a backend and that's this backend is providen to any distribution,
>> then userconfig will be improved to use it. As I said previously, it's
>> only a start (or restart in this case, as KUser exists).
>>
>> serviceconfig :
>> Serviceconfig has pratically the same history than userconfig, but the
>> main difference is that KSysV is really old and not really good, so
>> its replacing will be easier and earlier.
>>
>> mountconfig :
>> If mountconfig has issues, they will need to be fixed before
>> integrating it to KDE Admin. I've maybe not specifying that each sub
>> applications will have to follow the KDE application process
>> (http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/SVN_Guidelines)
>>
>> wineconfig :
>> If a D-Bus interface has been started in the Wine project, maybe we
>> could wait its release to see if the porting is necessary, or if it
>> could be better to rewrite it from scratch.
>>
>> guidance-power-manager :
>> It seems that power-devil will be the next application that will take
>> care about battery management, so, the Guidance one is not
>> particularly needed.
>>
>> To conclude, there are 3 applications of the Guidance project that
>> could be used, and that could be ported to KDE 4 (userconfig port is
>> already started). Those applications will have to follow the KDE
>> application integration policy one by one, to be sure there are enough
>> mature to be part of KDE.
>>
>> The guidance-kde4 branch will contain only those 3 applications, to
>> reflect what we said here.
>>
>> Do you agree with this ?
>>
>> Nicolas Ternisien
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:35:27 -0500 "Yuriy Kozlov"
>>> <yuriy-kozlov at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>displayconfig is now replaced by kcmrandr, hopefully.  (Is that using
>>>>this Kephal library?)  The latter still needs work, and taking some of
>>>>the interface from displayconfig might be a good idea, but the backend
>>>>of displayconfig is outdated now, as ScottK can attest to after trying
>>>>to fix it up for Hardy.  However, there are also some features in
>>>>displayconfig other than resolution setting and such that are
>>>>currently not covered in KDE modules AFAIK, like gamma settings.
>>>>displayconfig also had display power settings, which system settings
>>>>already has, but is that taken care of by powerdevil now (in 4.2)?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Redoing the displayconfig back end to work with xrandr and modern
>>> xorg.conf'less systems is a critical piece.  I don't see significant value
>>> in a KDE4 port of displayconfig.
>>>
>>> From what I've been reading, it sounds like many of the currently missing
>>> bits in the kcmrandr tool have been added in 4.2.
>>>
>>> Guidance power manager still works pretty well (that's been ported
>>> already).  It could stand some re-enginnering on the back end as I don't
>>> think it's entirely in synch with modern hal/dbus magic.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, the Kubuntu plan for 9.04 is to switch to powerdevil.
>>>
>>> Scott K
>>>
>>
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