Dolphin BoF Notes - Akademy 2020

[Elvis Angelaccio]

Hi,
in the attachment the notes we discussed at the Dolphin BoF yesterday.

Thanks again to everyone who attended :)

Cheers,
Elvis

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Dolphin BoF - Akademy 2020
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Topics
	* Telemetry with KUserFeedback
	* Main Pain Points in dolphin
	* Dolphin homepage
	* Status of Polkit in KIO
	* Merge dolphin-plugins into dolphin?
	* Dolphin design


Telemetry with KUserFeedback
	* Dolphin product added to telemetry.kde.org
	* KUserFeedback patch ready to be merged
	* Which settings should we track?
		* How many people mount network FS?
		* Which ioslave are the most used?

Dolphin design
	* https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/21
	* Pending review, will likely be merged.

Main Pain Points in dolphin
	* UI freezes when browsing SSHFS (KDEConnect) or Fuse Mounts: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423187
		* Does kio-fuse help?
		* Méven was doing some work: https://phabricator.kde.org/T11627
		* Don't do blocking calls. :) https://github.com/blue-systems/plasma-issues/issues/201 ==> https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/issues/5
	* Do we need to make file selection while in single-click mode more intuitive?
		* Yes, but how? Help from VDG is welcome.
	* Time to generate previews. Folder thumbnailer should cache them?
		* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423538
		* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423541
		* Always cache everything :)
		* Have parallel cache resolution

Dolphin Homepage
	* https://kde.org/applications/en/system/org.kde.dolphin#
	* Needs some love
	* Get in touch with promo
	* Change some more technical description points to be understandable by "normal" people
	* Development link could just redirect to invent

Status of Polkit in KIO
	* Is someone working on it?
	* Supposedly there is only one patch missing? https://phabricator.kde.org/D7563
	* Once we flip the switch in KIO, we need to add support in dolphin: https://phabricator.kde.org/T5203
	* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379215
	* Hopefully needs just a proper QA to get it finally done. Maybe we can ask Adam if we can find someone to work on this?

Merge dolphin-plugins into dolphin?
	* Dolphin doesn't guarantee stable ABI
	* git history can be preserved
	* Could be done. But check dependencies first (also runtime ones).