Notes from Plasma BoF

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> Plasma BoF 27-7-2015
>
> - Qt 5.5
>     - Plasma 5.4 does not depend on 5.5, but we support / fix bugs with Qt
> 5.5
>     - we recommend Qt 5.4
>     - seems all happy, but let's look out for bugs
>
>
> - Changelog for Plasma 5.4
>     - we recommend Qt 5.5, multiscreen is much better with it
>     - improved high dpi support (should complete high dpi support)
>     - to merge Dave's slider
>     - touch improvements (in task manager for example)
>     - memory improvements (script engine stuff)
>     - Easier clock setup for 24 hour mode
>     - calendar navigation improvements
>     - plasma-volume-control
>     - new Xapian-replacement backend for Baloo (check with Vishesh)
>     - sticky notes with drag and drop support, keyboard nav
>     - trash applet now works again with drag and drop
>     - system tray has more options (show all, faster and more efficient,
> more
> reliable)
>     - improved wallpaper rendering
>     - Wayland tech preview (complete Plasma wayland session), driven by
> phone
> feature set
>     - plus stuff that comes up on the ML
>     - shit-ton more breeze icons
>     - improved documentation
>     - new wallpaper
>
>
> - plasma-volume-control
>     - needs final review / moving to kde/workspace -> poke Harald
>     - make sure shortcuts are working (Harald)
>     - ship .desktop file to not autostart replace kmix (Dave)
>     - check i18n (sebas)
>
> - high dpi: we want to investigate dpi validation heuristics
>
> - Plasma 5.5 planning
>     - holiday and PIM integration
>     - review / merge phone repos into kde/workspace (only workspacey parts,
> other things should go into frameworks or apps)
>     - merge davetray (turns xembed systray stuff into statusnotifiers,
> makes
> it work also on wayland)
>     - more granularity for kauthorized / kiosk checks
>     - Wayland improvements:
>         - screen configuration for wayland changes
>         - kwin QPA
>         - get moving of windows fixed
>         - popup positions
>         - move screenlocker into kwin
>         - hard-depend on libwayland
>     - touchpad KCM rewrite
>     - killing consolekit usage
>     - kill HAL usage (barring *BSD objections)
>     - formfactor filtering (see phone stuff)
>     - evaluate and adopt phabricator
>     - virtualbox support
>     - khotkeys: remove gestures from khotkeys ui
>
> - Phone stuff
>     - look Rob Clark's (vanilla) kernels instead of the Android / libhybris
> stack
>     - look at steps to have ubuntu touch supported devices work
>     - Discuss moving to Debian as reference platform
>         - untangle ubuntu touch apps support
>     - new libhybris
>     - Does Kubuntu / Neon want to base on Debian
>     - plan Plasma sprint for September (sebas)
>     - more documentation
>     - issue migration to bugzilla (sebas)
>     - Phone design BoF
>     - bigger root filesystem
>     - easy setup to run phone shell on the desktop (add that to the SDK)
>     - Formfactor filtering
>         - make sure that plasmoids have formfactor (sebas)
>         - filter in systemtray
>         - filter formfactor in Kickoff
>         - filter in add widget dialog
>     - how to do applications / HIG for phones
>
> - priority fix bugs for Plasma 5.4
>     - shortcuts are broken, needs fixing (dave) #307390 (some key combos
> not
> working as shortcuts); #348456 (custom shortcuts not sent)
>


>     - CPU usage in plotter component #348385 and #346134
>
Fixed now :)


>     - systray to activate individual entries #350610 (probably too invasive
> for 5.4 -> push to 5.5)
>


>     - solid crashed plasmashell #346517
>

Can someone volunteer to look into this one?


>     - keyboard shortcuts and i18n clas #309193
>
> and this one

>
>
>
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> sebas
>
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