Post-MegaRelease projects

[Justin Zobel]

On 23/2/24 08:27, Nate Graham wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Congrats to the entire KDE community on the impending launch of the 
> KDE 6 MegaRelease! I'm so impressed with how folks came together to 
> make it amazing. It's a very impressive release and I think people are 
> gonna love it.
>
> I've started pondering post-megarelease projects. We've spent so long 
> on porting and bugfixing that I think it might be useful to shift 
> gears to feature work, and I'd like to brainstorm potential 
> large-scale projects and gauge the level of interest in putting 
> resources into them soon.
>
> Here are some ideas of mine to get the creative juices started:
>
> * David's input method playground stuff [1] is amazing and needs to be 
> developed and productized
> * GNOME's Libadwaita app platform has been a runaway success for them; 
> evaluate our offerings in comparison and see what we can do better
> * Unified theming infrastructure for KDE apps, GTK apps, and Plasma.
> ** Relatedly: QML/JS in themes is dangerous; move away from it
Agreed, this will make themes uploaded the KDE Store less likely to 
contain malicious code
> * Start adding release notes to our apps' AppStream metadata [2]
Regarding this we could add (or improve any existing) linting job to 
include appdata checks.
> * Finish up and ship the new Breeze icons
> * HIG is outdated and mostly ignored, and needs an overhaul to make it 
> useful
> * Telemetry system has not proved to be very useful and needs an overhaul
> * store.kde.org is full of low-quality or broken content; make a push 
> for KDE people to take ownership of content moderation, QA, etc. Also 
> any relevant and needed tech improvements
Please feel free to CC/invite me on anything related to the store as I 
manage the servers and have direct contact with the Web team that 
manages the software. I am always looking for new ways to remove spam, 
keep the platform secure and any ways to make sure the content is well 
curated.
> * Our virtual keyboard situation is not great and needs focused work
On this I think it might be worth looking into working with Dobey who 
works on Maliit. It's used by the Plasma Mobile stack and I think Dobey 
is the only major contributor to it. It could either be brought under 
the KDE umbrella or forked to be a KDE specific OSK
> * KWallet needs an overhaul
> * Have KWin (optionally) remember window positions on Wayland
> * Build a "System misconfiguration detection hub" app [3]
>
> Feel free to discuss, and propose your own!
>
> Nate
>
>
>
> [1] 
> https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/new-ideas-using-wayland-input-methods/
> [2] https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/354
> [3] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/issues/64