KF6 meeting notes 2021-04-24

[Dominik Haumann]

Hi Luigi,

with respect to the reminder of the weekly meetings: It might make
sense to send such a reminder *before* these meetings and not after
:-)

Besides that, thanks for sending these minutes to keep us all informed.

Best regards
Dominik

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> we had more Plasma people around today, so the work focused on Plasma notes
> (some of which turned out to not be really KF6.0 blockers).
>
> Before going into the notes, I'd like to remind everyone that the meeting
> happens every Saturday at 15.00 CEST (currently 13.00 GMT) and it uses the
> same infrastructure (BBB) of the KF6 sprint:
> https://community.kde.org/Sprints/KF6/2021Virtual
>
> Now, the notes.
>
> ---
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T11587 "Investigate making KColorScheme tier1"
> Very useful as it touches several dependencies, but no people around for this,
> let's move it to another meeting.
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T13889 "Plasma::PluginLoader cleanup"
> -> not really KF6, just Plasma. Moved to backlog.
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12611 "Make Breeze a framework and relocate all
> of its Plasma theme stuff (e.g. wallpaper) to a different repo still on the
> Plasma release schedule"
> -> no need for input, move to "move to KF6 branching"
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T13467 "Theming in Plasma 6"
> A lot of discussions, agreement in place, just a lot of work.
> But not blocking for KF6.0.
> The only task related to KF6 is the creation/splitting of a SVG library and
> its addition to KF6, which is tracked by https://phabricator.kde.org/T12109
> -> remove the KF6 tag
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12105 "Plasma Framework: Discussion Configuration
> dialogs"
> It's a cleanup task, Plasma-only
> -> will be updated and KF6 tag removed
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12117 "Plasma framework: qml imports plasma Core"
> Clean up in the imports of plasma-frameworks. Relevant for KF6 (and the part
> of plasma-frameworks which will stay in KF6).
> -> improve the description, move to "at branching time"
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12542 "Fix circular dependency of
> applications.menu in KService and plasma-workspace"
> Still need some discussion, but no  one around remembers the details right now.
>
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T11903 "KWayland for KF6"
> To be reevaluated now that the we have split some wayland stuff in separate
> repositories.
> Client part should be ported away from KWayland.
> -> no "needs input", the direction "port away from kwayland client" is clear
> (see last comment), move to "backlog"
>
>
> There were some questions about a proposed tasks which affects KIconLoader to
> switch the default to 24x24  (instead of 22x22)
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T14397
> -> people are going to look which code is potentially affected this change. On
> the Frameworks side, it only affects the "when" to switch the size
>
>
> For the next meetings: there are tasks which would benefit from having around:
>
> - Kai Uwe (https://phabricator.kde.org/T12536 ,
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T11833 , https://phabricator.kde.org/T11875 ,
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12008 )
>
> - more Davids (https://phabricator.kde.org/T12275,
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12542, etc etc etc)
>
> so if you match the description above and read this, please try to be around
> next time!
>
> Ciao
> --
> Luigi