planning for 4.4

Jeremy Whiting jeremy at scitools.com
Sat Jun 27 00:19:58 CEST 2009


On Friday 26 June 2009 15:47:52 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all ...
>
> i'd like to invite everyone to a "planning for Plasma in 4.4" irc meeting.
> it would be great to do it this weekend, as Akademy is next week. i know
> some of our people are at linuxtag this weekend, but hopefully they can
> find an hour or so tomorrow to work it in.
>
> it will be the usual "what are our plans and goals for 4.4, and who'll be
> doing what" coordination meet up so we know where we are headed in the next
> six months. with Akademy next week, it's a great opportunity to get
> together in person and work on these things even further. as you probably
> know, i won't be there this year, but i will be online 24x7 (P. will be out
> with his mom, so i should be relatively free, aside from packing up the
> house).
>
> can those who can make it tomorrow at 15:00 UTC please rsvp to this email.
> those can not, let me know if sunday works better.
>
> as for possible agenda items, i have a decently healthy list of items
> already:
>
> * plasma mid
> * notification queuing and logging
> * full featured JavaScript API (binding Qt+KDE libs in full)
> * further extension of the Simple JavaScript API
> * kinetic
> * remote widgets/engines/services
> * context menus and mouse action plugins for containments
> * add widget dialog
> * improvements to ZUI (finally _nail_ that crap)[1]
> * window slide in/out in KWin
> * social desktop
> * plasmate
> * video driven "welcome" plasmoid
> * the ARM CPU arch and plasma
> * moving system tray from experimental to fd.o standard
> * krunner magic -> basics are in place, now lets take it to school!
> * developer documentation, website
> * kuiserver and plasma job display
> * autoupdating / checking of plasmoids
>
> [1] i've figured out a rather hackish way to draw shawdows around the
> containments in DesktopView when zoomed out .. *grin* it's not pretty, but
> it will work and not degrade performance. which means we can replace the
> checkerboard background.


I'll be around and will make myself available whenever.  I'll probably get on 
around 6 or 7 am (12:00 or 13:00 UTC) and will stay on from then until not 
needed anymore =)

Jeremy


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