As promised, I've finished porting the plugins and protocols code we discussed in summer and pushed the changes into 'kf5' branch. Actually most of the changes are quite trivial.
2016-10-22 21:24 GMT+03:00 R.Harish Navnit <harishnav...@gmail.com>: > Thanks, > R.Harish Navnit > The Enigma > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:52 PM, R.Harish Navnit > <harishnav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Pali, >> >> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:30 PM, 4ernov <4er...@gmail.com> 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 <pali.ro...@gmail.com>: >>>> 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
