On Wednesday 17 August 2011 06:54:45 Timothy Pearson wrote: > > > > I think it would be better to get a new plugin into LibreOffice before the > > KDE3 one is dropped, as this will avoid the whole unpleasantness that goes > > along with trying to re-add a dropped component (and many times prevents > > the new component from being included in the upstream project). It would > > also minimize the impact to users, who theoretically could end up without > > Trinity integration for at least one LibreOffice release cycle. > > > > Tim > > > > Thinking about this some more, I wonder if we can take ownership of the > old KDE3 plugin and just rename it/patch it upstream. Why do you think it needs patching? It works well. > That would probably > be easiest and produce a minimal amount of work for both us and > LibreOffce. > The downside, of course, is that KDE3 support for versions <= 3.5.10 would > be removed. Why do you want to break it? > I will dig around in the build system a bit as I have time > and see what can be done. Is something needs to be done actually if all works well?