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KDE Forks (KWinFT, Qt, CHMLib) and KPublicTransport

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 18th of April 2020 03:34:32 PM Filed under
KDE
  • KWinFT packaged for openSUSE, KWin-LowLatency updated

    First review: I don’t notice a difference to regular KWin – I guess that’s a good thing for a new project.

    I won’t submit the package to the KDE repository after they refused to accept KWin-LowLatency because they don’t want 3rd party packages there. They will just do the same again. If they ever change their minds, I’ll be happy to submit both again.

  • Commentary on the Qt situation

    A lot of things have been going on with Qt these days. It all started with The Qt Company trying to get an increase in their revenues, specifically this blog post. And just like a proper PR team, they didn't talk about the changes clearly for the open-source folks who use the product.

    [...]

    These changes won't affect open source Qt that much, on the other hand, the last 2 points do make sense. The Qt company is paying for the server to host the builds, it would be wrong for us to expect them to do that for no charge. Other than that, the first point would mean the open-source community needs to do some extra work to backport security patches. A thing which distro packagers already used to do in the past when there were no LTS releases of Qt.

    [...]

    If KDE forks Qt, it would be a huge task on the community to maintain it on their own, especially parts like QtWebEngine. Though we could always backport all the patches to the fork after a year along with ours. If companies which rely on the LGPL Qt, come together, an open-source Qt fork could surely be maintained under KDE. It might be a bit of trouble to organize everything but it is not impossible at all.

    [...]

    This event at least made me realize a couple of things, one The Qt Company never acknowledges the open source contributions. I never saw a single mention of KDE in their blog post leave all other projects. Second don't rely on one thing too much. It is great that Qt makes C++ as easy as Java, but relying too much on it could have worse consequences.

  • Should KDE fork CHMLib?

    CHMLib is a library to handle CHM files.

    It is used by Okular and other applications to show those files.

    It hasn't had a release in 11 years.

    It is packaged by all major distributions.

    A few weeks ago I got annoyed because we need to carry a patch in Okular flathub because the code is not great and it defines it's own int types.

    I tried contacting the upstream author, but unsurprisingly after 11 years he doesn't seem to care much and got no answer.

  • Public Transport Line Metadata

    KPublicTransport gives us access to real-time departure and journey information for many public transport systems. However, the presentation of the result isn’t ideal yet, as we are missing access to the characteristic symbols/icons and colors often associated with public transport lines.

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