[Kde-hardware-devel] Re: 4.7 Release is coming, are we ready?

[Lamarque Vieira Souza]

Em Saturday 11 June 2011, Alex Fiestas escreveu:
> On Saturday, June 11, 2011 06:20:00 PM you wrote:
> > 	Development is progressing in both master and nm09 branches, Will is
> > working on libnm-qt branch. Every couple of weeks we have one or two new
> > features implemented and several bugs fixed (specially in nm09 branch).
> > Things are improving fast compared to one year ago. We also have more
> > people contributing regularly, like Ilia Kats and Rajeesh K Nambiar.
> 
> Perfect to see that more people is helping, do you know if they're
> subscribed to this mailist? would be nice to have them on board for Berlin
> Dekstop Summit and for the Sprint.

	I do not think they are subscribed here, they are subscribed in kde-
networkmanagement. I am adding then to the conversation.
 

> > 	There is only one problem for KDE SC 4.7.0: kdelibs'
> > Solid::Networking::status() depends on a NetworkManager backend to get
> > network status from NM. Some programs like Gluon depends on
> > S::N::status() to work properly. Since the NM backend in kde-workspace
> > does not work with NM-0.9 there can be problems for those who do not use
> > any of the Plasma NM branches (nm09, libnm-qt) or the Fedora in-house
> > solution. That accounts for everybody who uses nm-applet in Plasma
> > desktop.
> 
> I see, we've to fix that ASAP since kdelibs will be freezed until KDE
> Framworks is released, meaning that either we fix this now or we have to
> wait 1 year at least.

	I think we can change the NM backend in kde-workspace to handle at least 
the NM-0.9's networking status, that can be done without changing anything in 
kdelibs.

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