minutes Monday Plasma hangout

[Bhushan Shah]

Hello!

I was not available on hangout here is my list :

[bshah]
* porting plotter and gauge to QML, adjusting API to match older Signal Plotter.
* Porting kde-workspace away from KDE4Support_LIBRARIES, currently
there are 27 instances in kde-workspace.

Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> As usual on Mondays, we get together and talk about the status and plans for
> Plasma 2 while we work on it. I thought it'd be useful to share these things
> on the mailing list, since not everybody can take part then. I'll try to do
> that from now on.
>
> Today's meeting:
>
> [sebas]
> * work on system tray progressing,
>         - we can load Plasmoids (notifications and network management widgets
>         currently), we get information about statusnotifier
>         - there's currently some copied code in there, packageaccessmanager and
>         urlinterceptor especially. Those will be moved into the PlasmaQuick library
>         (which is fairly new), since it depends on QtQuick and plasma.
>         - DBusMenuQt cmake rework needs upstreaming
>         - x11embed systray not ported, needs investigation of viability, can
>         something move into Qt?
> * network management widget:
>         - Port is almost complete, libnm-qt builds, works, all tests pass,
>         networkmanagement plasmoid loads and is functional
>         - libmm-qt is partly ported, but in process of being ported to a new
>         modemmanager
>
> [aseigo]
> * refactoring krunner
>         - new classes with mostly the same API, uses QtConcurrent instead of
>         ThreadWeaver
>         - new API will be more or less a superset of current API for easy porting
>
> [afiestas]
> * work on libsolid changes
>         - everything async
>         - power management and session management are getting more logically
>         separated to prevent roundtrips and make it less error-prone
>         - more use of logind and systemd in these scenarios
>         - locking is in the scope of this as well, it should tie in with logind
>         - startup procedure as well, evaluating systemd, systemk, startactive and
>         various other solutions to bring up the workspace
> * kded
>         - kded should be able to run plugins in their own process
>         - dbus activation vs. kded makes it easier to run apps that need kded-
>         functionality outside of Plasma
>
> [ivan]
> * kactivities port almost ready, will land in the next days
>
> [notmart]
> * Panels
>         - basic work done
>         - "panel modes", e.g. autohide, windows cover, etc are missing
>
> [mgraesslin]
> * kde-workspace jenkins finally green again \o/
> * focusing on window decorations right now, freeing from QWidget
> * worked on apps setting the window theme (for special apps like photoeditors,
>   krita)
> * working on keyboard shortcuts
>
> [terietor]
> * Working on porting Plasmate
> * plasmoidviewer is becoming useful, patch on RB
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
>
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