Monday meeting notes for 18/12/2023

[Marco Martin]

Joshua
Stuff that's already approved but still noteworthy:
    Been talking about it last week, but finally did it! Kirigami now
says which style you're using which may help you with "platform plugin
not found" warnings.
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/1411
    Handle the lockscreen fallback greeter failing, which should never
happen but now it works a little bit better.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreenlocker/-/merge_requests/193
This MR needs another look, because I modified it quite a bit:
    Check if the QQC2 style exists before setting it in (Qt6) Plasma
Intregration: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-integration/-/merge_requests/126
Fallback styles work differently in Qt6, as in if it doesn't exist
then the engine will hard exit (that pesky "org.kde.breeze module not
found" error.) I filed https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-120194
for this. I suggest it should still be merged for 6.0, I don't know
when it'll get fixed upstream (or when I'll find time to fix it.)
There's also the question of it affecting everything before 6.6.2 or
something like that, so the code needs to stay until we bump the
required min Qt. I tried to section it off as much as possible, so it
can be easily removed later.

Also KWaylandIntegration was stripped of something it should've had, if
nicofee or

David Redondo (@davidre:kde.org) could take a look at
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwayland-integration/-/merge_requests/63
that would be nice :)


Niccolò
I spent some time refactoring the code that sizes the applets in the
panel after the change from @notmart to make all them fillWidth by
default; there were some edge cases which I think I fixed now.
I was also looking into panels having the keyboard focus line on
startup whenever they were empty, but I couldn't find the issue.
I added a button to make the dialogs floating (detached from the
panel); we had that already out of the box for floating panels, but
there was no way to trigger it for non-floating ones. However it's
technically a feature and it will require an exeption.
Plus some other uninteresting bugfixes :P
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1901


Xaver
I'm spending most of my KDE time bugfixing, but I got a few nice
things still done and queuing up:
   * an implementation for tearing with atomic modesetting, so that
the "allow tearing" checkbox finally actually does something by
default: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4800
   * an implementation for explicit sync. It's still very WIP but
it'll fix lots of issues with NVidia on Wayland:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4693
   * I wrote a blog post about the HDR stuff
   * I have some more color management and VRR improvements I plan to
work on, but a bunch of them probably have to wait for Plasma 6.1

Nico
I upgraded my Qt to the new 6.7 branch
Which was fun, because I ran into a handful of bugs, so I spent some
time reporting them
Other than that I did a push on
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreen/-/merge_requests/126  Which has
a few dependent changes
And multiple ways how things could be done


Akseli
   * I worked on this MR over the weekend because it was bothering me,
I wanted to refactor that old code I had there.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/merge_requests/386
       * Instead doing our own weird math, just use KColorUtil::mix to
make the colors fit.
       * This should make the colors more consistent across desktop,
since it follows the values other elements have.
       * It's a small step towards my goal of making outline and
separator colors consistent.
       * This consistency will also help in future if/when I start
working on customizable separator colors.
       * Which then in turn allows us make accessible high contrast themes. :)
   * Also looking into issues with kickoff crashing when resuming to
use PC after screen has been turned off for a while. This is my prio.
        https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478679
        https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/3695


Arjen
* been chasing plasma bugs
* currently investigating a crash in plasmashell I get with mirrored screen


Carl
Worked mostly on porting apps to Qt6
Plasma relevant, i created
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/qqc2-desktop-style/-/merge_requests/344
and a related thread on the kde-devel mailing list about
spacing/margins. It might be a good idea to get some other thoughts on
the topic of Kirigami.Units vs QStyle::pixelMetric(PM_LayoutMargin).


Kai Uwe
KWin:
    Allow show desktop screen edge during drag and drop, please
review: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4792
        Lets you start dragging a file, nudge the screen edge to show
the desktop, drop on desktop
Plasma:
    Folder View creates drag pixmap with dpr now
    Will add “Channel” to WLAN frequency details
Frameworks:
    Support XDG foreign, I’d really get this in soon...
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwindowsystem/-/merge_requests/136


Marco
* possibility to set the panel edge purely with keyboard navigation
* fixed a problem in panel sizing
* fixed some other fallout from the port away from PlasmaCore.Dialog
of panel tiny config popups
* fix launcher dashboard "all apps" view
* fixed an assert in folderview during drag and drop
* fixed another little cosmetic problem in folderview drag and drop
* more investigation for new categories and retrocompatibility of
store items for plasma6 items
* patches for popup headers and calendar to make it pixel perfect



Jonathan
* beta 2 on wednesday!
* as well as frameworks and kde gear
* I'm about to make a release of xwaylandvideobridge