KF6 meeting notes 2022-04-12

[Volker Krause]

On Thursday, 14 April 2022 03:22:01 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> Hi Volker,
> Thanks a lot for the notes! It makes it easier to follow the work even
> if I'm unable to join lately.
> 
> One question, how does co-installability affect flatpak? If anything,
> the environment is much more controlled so it shouldn't matter that
> much (?).

Right, that comment referred to the plugin-only build options, not co-
installability as a whole. Think of a Dolphin Flatpak wanting to have support 
for dealing with compressed archives and thus needing Ark's file manager 
plugins.

Regards,
Volker

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 9:24 PM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
> > https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard/-/issues/3
> > 
> > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfigwidgets/-/merge_requests/131
> > - needs review/feedback
> > - interesting part is openColorScheme() in kcolorschemehelpers_p.h
> > - existing benchmark in the tests shows no change
> > - might not work with Plasma's accent color feature, as that uses
> > kdeglobals - possible approach: store only the accent color in
> > kdeglobals, next to the color scheme name, and move the colors kcm color
> > mixing code for this to KColorScheme
> > 
> > https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard/-/issues/
> > 3#note_425424
> > - QDesktopWidget porting details noted in the issue
> > - plasma-framework builds, plasma-workspace only blocked by
> > kwayland-server
> > issues with the QDesktopWidget uses resolved
> > - plasma-desktop's biggest issue is the kdelibs4support use in the
> > date/times KCM
> > 
> > https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard/-/issues/
> > 3#note_431116
> > - two people in favor on mailing list, no objections, so let's go with
> > this
> > 
> > https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard/-/issues/
> > 3#note_431647
> > - only two applets access KPackage this way, so impact would be quite
> > minimal - let's do it
> > 
> > Co-installability/co-usability of KIO slaves with different major versions
> > - kio-extras is not going to be co-installable could be a problem for this
> > - also affects previews, context menu plugins, etc
> > - everything plugin related is in versioned locations, so this is actually
> > co- installable
> > - similar problem with Ark's file manager integration plugins
> > - when transitioning those to 6 would degrade 5-based consumers
> > - probably needs kio-extras to be co-installable after all
> > - for cases like ark, we might want a "plugins only" build flag, in 5
> > already - also helps with Flatpak bundling
> > 
> > next meeting:
> > https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard/-/
> > issues/4


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