Talk:KDE Frameworks

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A first paragraph should be a brief, obvious summary. So, I added the first sentence of the KDE Platforms article - it's much better now, but the first paragraph still contains a lot of distracting, detailed information in lieu of a summary that states 1) what kind of thing the KDE Frameworks are 2) what they are for. 84.155.90.69 (talk) 21:42, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment the article contains an ugly list with the title: "Complete list of frameworks". I think the info is valuable, but the appearance is ugly. It would expecially be nice to have some scheme, e.g. http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/KDE%20Frameworks%205%20clean.png or even better: http://lwn.net/Articles/447619/ User:ScotXW^t@lk 15:13, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with myself... some structure would be nice. As this article is about software that serves as "technological foundation", so it would be nice to make and keep this as technical as possible. Not screenshots please, but schemes and diagrams. User:ScotXW^t@lk 12:55, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

KDE Frameworks is a collection of libraries and software frameworks by KDE that serve as technological foundation for KDE Plasma Frameworks 5 and KDE Applications 5 distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

The included individual frameworks offer a wide variety of commonly needed functionality providing solutions including hardware integration, file format support, additional graphical control elements, plotting functions, spell checking and more. Many^[which?] of the frameworks are available for multiple operating systems and have minimal or no extra dependencies.

KDE Frameworks represents an effort to rework KDE Platform 4 into a set of individual and independent, cross platform modules that will be readily available to all Qt-based applications. The transition from KDE Platform to KDE Frameworks has been in progress for over 3 years, guided by top KDE technical contributors.^[1]

1. I'd like a strong reference to the LGPL. Are all libs/frameworks under LGPL or are there exception?
2. cross-platform: is a weasel-word per se, additionally, the section "list" should clarify what works on which operating system
3. The articles KDE Platform 4 (KDE SC4) and KDElibs (KDE 1, KDE 2 and KDE 3) are not that well written, so we should not refer to them too much. User:ScotXW^t@lk 12:54, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One modified external link remains from the bot edit:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140822020749/http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/ to http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/

Not sure if it even really still needs to be on the page, there is another citation already at that location.

Psypherium^{talk page} 09:48, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]