minutes Monday Plasma hangout

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Monday, October 14, 2013 15:32:15 Sebastian Kügler 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,

Didn't attend, but possibly relevant for folks working on workspace
[teo]
 * porting ksmserver

Cheers,
-- 
Teo Mrnjavac
http://teom.org | teo at kde.org
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