Monday meeting notes for 31/05/2021

[Marco Martin]

Nico
* I did some bugfixing/polishing for 5.22
* In particular a lot of VD-KCM bugs
* Also in the autostart KCM
* There are some open bugs in there, some related to the systemd startup
* I'd appreciate d_ed's help there
* Then yesterday I built plasma-workspace against Qt6
*  I tried running something in plasmawindowed but all I got was a white window
* But I butchered the code pretty badly
* So the issue could be from me
* I'm now starting to upstream the changes that are easy to apply to Qt5
* For example I switched all of Plasma from qt5_ to qt_ cmake DBus macros
* I also helped Bhushan with porting plasma-dialer to pulseaudio-qt
* It's amazing now
* except it crashes sometimes
* Need to look into that
    KDE bug 437879 in pulseaudio-qt (general) "Segfault in
Card::sources on 1.3 on Pinephone" [crash,]
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437879

Arjen
* main thing plasma-related I did last week is that I overhauled the
smoothing code for line charts which now uses cubic monotonic
interpolation thanks to a find from d_ed
* which fixes some weird spikes that were happening and makes the
charts overall more correct
* see https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kquickcharts/-/merge_requests/31
* (and it allowed me to actually spot a bug in the network manager
backend of ksystemstats)

Vlad
 * sent a message to kwin and plasma-devel mailing lists about
removing some effects that are not widely used, hard to maintain and
that are blockers for the scene redesign
* landed async geometry updates patch
* added support for hidpi window screenshots on wayland
* fixed some geometry related bugs on x11
* started looking into how to add support for delayed surface commits
(for the wp_transaction protocol and explicit synchronization)

Fabian
* I don't have much to report, just https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436473
    KDE bug 436473 in Breeze (QStyle) "Cursor is stuck to resize icon
when hovering into panels across the movable dividers" [normal,FIXED]
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436473
* Got fixed two weeks ago, but reports are still coming in
[<ahiemstra[m] probably because the beta breeze hasn't been updated?]
* I wrote to distros at kde.org that it should be backported, but that
might not have reached everyone

Bhushan
- Ported plasma-dialer to pulseaudio-qt, fixing dialer speaker and
mute buttons in process
- Opened MR for adding Access Points configuration in plasma-settings
- need small help with FormLayout oddity:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasma-settings/-/merge_requests/87
- i have just one relevant mr concerning the behavior of the
kirigami.pagerow.layers with pagepoolaction
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/306

Marco
# Plasma
* Launching an app in kickoff doesn't trigger a needless slide of the
menu item anymore
* still some minor work on the plasma6 applet loading prototype
# Gwenview / Dolphin
* when pressing right arrow key at the end of a slideshow, it wraps to
the first picture, same thing for left arrow key on the first picture
wraps to the last. Still needs some feedback on how to do final UI for
this  https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/78
* If gwenview is launched by clicking on an image on dolphin, it asks
dolphin via dbus what's its sorting order for that folder, so it gets
synced, clicking next will be the next image you expect from the
dolphin view  https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/80
  https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/215
# Kirigami
* use ecm_generate_qmltypes for plugin.qmltypes

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Marco Martin