MOday meeting notes for 15/10/2018

[Marco Martin]

Sorry, missed Johnathan, with the very important announce of the
kickoff meeting:
5.14 is out!
* 5.14.1 tomorrow
* I've been pinging people with ToDo items to get them up to date but
could do with catching up with notmart and maybe others
 ** 5.15 kickoff Wed 17 12:00UTC, 13:00BST, 14:00CEST
https://notes.kde.org/p/plasma-5.15-kickoff
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:21 PM Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David:
> * I spent another day on stupid FF + wayland. I now have the buffer
> issue reproducible in a super simple non-kwin test. Which is progress,
> but not good progress.
> * There's some news on the bug that plasmashell apparently locks up
> and freezes on notifications. It seems it happens with oxygen and the
> SuSE theme, but not breeze. I want to investigate that (probably
> Dialog resize loop, probably dialog resize from contents should all be
> based on implicitsize, not size of contents)
> * At some point I think we need a dialog2; we can do that one right
>
> Vlad:
>  Done:
> * Fixed flickering caused by the Dialog (Windows of type Dialog, not
> Plasma Dialog discussed before) Parent effect;
> * Fixed crashing of the Dim Inactive effect when some application
> creates a window, then closes it, then creates it again;
> * The Fade Desktop effect is no longer fades windows that have been
> moved between virtual desktops, also it now implicitly supports the
> new virtual desktop protocol.
> Under review/Waiting for review:
> * Optimize shadow generation in the Breeze decoration theme; D15514
>     Diff 15514 "[libbreezecommon] Use box blur instead of FFT blur"
> [Accepted] https://phabricator.kde.org/D15514
> * Overhaul the Snap Helper effect; D15695
>     Diff 15695 "[effects/snaphelper] Do massive overhaul" [Needs
> Review] https://phabricator.kde.org/D15695
> * Simplify code that builds the constrained stacking order. D15893
>     Diff 15893 "Generalize constrainedStackingOrder for group
> transients and ordinary transients" [Needs Review]
> https://phabricator.kde.org/D15893
> Currently working on:
> * Still working on the transient stuff. https://bugs.kde.org/397448
>
> Marco:
> 8/10/2018
> Kirigami:
> * new Breadcrumb and TabBar global toolbar implementation that
> deprecate completely old crufty ApplicationHeader
> * Fixed loading of icons on Android for QQC2 controls such as
> Button,ToolButton,MenuItem etc
> * further layout fixes to overlay sheets
> * fixed display of layers headers
> * rework layers animation, looks way smoother now
> * started a rework of pages globalToolBar, still to finish for this
> week, right now on branch mart/innerPageToolBar
> Plasma:
> * multilevel kcm finally completely merged
> * fixed in the virtual desktop branches based on feedback