On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 23:25, Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...> wrote:
> 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.

TQt intergration.

>
>> 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?

KDE3 is technically obsolete.

>
>> 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?

Not with Trinity. See above.




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