On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, 11:48 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau, <kosse...@kde.org> wrote:
> (Added Han Young as BCC: based on code email address, as the task is not > public, and not sure you are subscribed to the mailinglists) > > Am Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2020, 12:05:46 CET schrieb David Edmundson: > > Please see https://community.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle > about > > the process of adding things to frameworks. > > > > As for plasma, we have a weather library there, so the comment about it > > being easier for new plasmoids doesn't hold directly. Maybe you can > expand > > on what's different? > > David, any chance you misremembered there being a weather library? If you > refer to the stuff in plasma-workspace (which then e.g. drives the kde- > plasmaaddons weather applet), that is just a DataEngine. > That is what I was referring to, yes. It may be "just" a dataengine, but the end-result of plasmoids/apps being able to get weather data is the same. I also have no qualms about replacing it for the same reasons you outlined (except maybe that this has a very hardcoded single backend), but we want to make sure we don't end up with two things. David
