Monday meeting notes for 9/11/2020

[Marco Martin]

Missing form David Redondo:
* I made a simple patch so QMenus are polished before creating the platform
window
*  https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/320154
*  Which was the cause for ugly menus appearing in some places

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:16 PM Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> David E
> * First thing to discuss -  there's a KDE community ML thread that
> says we didn't follow procedures wrt telemetry policy
> * There's a line that says "must have two reviewers" and then suggests
> two mailing lists
> * what should be done? a thread on kde-community for each place?
> [krop]: the purpose of the user feedback is not clearly identife,
> needs better wording
> [d_ed] krop: so what needs clarifying, the "it's for Plasma" aspect of it?
> * In terms of other Plasma news
>  - SDDM 0.19.0 had a release
>  - There's some major breakage wrt some annoying race condition when
> people have multiple cards
>  [fvogt] And there are some reports that the security fix somehow
> broke with the prop. nvidia driver, which I don't understand (yet)
>  [d_ed] FWIW any breakage isn't universal - I'm booting using it here
> * In general we do need to improve our testing on SDDM, it's harder to
> deploy than other apps so we have fewer people running master
>
> Luca:
> * Major breakage in plasma-framework
>   KDE bug 428811 in frameworks-plasma (libplasma) "Visual regression:
> margins no longer honored for Folder View in applet
> * it will be in 5.76, needs a revert or a fix
> [Marco] will look at it today
>
> JustinZ
> * Been doing loads of bug triage but that's about it. I'm new af, hi 👋
>
> Fabian:
> * openQA found that kwin didn't get the color scheme from the lnf:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428771
> * The kconfig notify mechanism doesn't seem that reliable either
> * It's opt-in and in many cases just doesn't work...
> * That's all I've got (to complain about) for now
>
>
> Nico
> * I fixed volume button handling in PlaMo:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-phone-components/-/merge_requests/102
> * That uncovered an issue in KWin:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428859
>     KDE bug 428859 in kwin (wayland-generic) "OSDs are maximized when
> using Maximized window placement policy" [normal,]
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428859
> * But I see zzag is already on it. nice
> * The main thing I want to talk about is the clang-formatting of Plasma.
> * I updated an older patch for this and did some manual intervention:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/381
> * One of the concerns was that enums are folded into one line
> * One can prevent that by including a trailing comma, which is a good
> idea regardless, so I made
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/434
> * The remaining concerns are mostly about clang-format being quite
> aggressive in putting things on a single line.
> * I see a few possible resolutions:
>  1) We live with it
>  2) We refactor those lines to be shorter
>  3) We use `// clang-format off` directives to prevent formatting
> where it would be too bad
>  4) We give clang-format a line length limit that prevents it from
> formatting
>
> Kai Uwe
> * Not much from me.
> * I promise I'll have a look at the p-b-i patch from fvogt tonight...
>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-browser-integration/-/merge_requests/14
> * Also figured out the panel margin situaton with the new panel
> padding/"bleed into the border" stuff, nicolove will fix
> * (I have a gap on the left and right of my panel I can't click)
>
> David R
> * I was away at the end of last week
> * Disable bouncy cursor during ksplash
> ** https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/416
> * Fix ctrl+q only working on second press in plasma-systemmonitor
> ** https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/149
> * Fix collapsed icons not being centered in kirigami drawer
> ** https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/150
> * Needs review so we can get it inot next bugfix release:
> ** https://invent.kde.org/plasma/khotkeys/-/merge_requests/6
>
> Bhushan
> * Not much to add, but I had been mostly working on PlaMo things
> * I also did some rework of keyboard_interface for grab_keyboard stuff
>
> Carl
> ## Kirigami
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/128
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/153
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/146 (merged)
> ## Website
> Kde.org/plasma-desktop is now translated in a few languages \o/
>
> Aleix
> * I have mostly been working on the surface activation wayland protocol.
> * I have a PoC implementation for plasma as server and Qt as clients
> and it's working as expected, still it will take some time until the
> work is useful to  the userbase
>
> Arjen
> * biggest thing is that we did the public preview release of
> plasma-systemmonitor last week
> * see
> https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2020-2020-11/plasma-system-monitor-preview-release
> if you haven't already
> * it has been very well received as far as I can tell
> * I've mostly been working on that release last week, with a few
> smaller bugfixes that came out of it
> * and a bunch of things on bko during the weekend as well
> * is a bit weird is that some users are reporting incredibly low
> framerates on wayland only
> * i've yet to investigate properly since the last time I tried the
> wayland session the entire session was running at unusably low
> framerates
>    KDE bug 428830 in plasma-systemmonitor (general) "App responds very
> slowly to any input on Wayland" [normal,]
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428830
>
> Marco
> * merged the global config button for systray applets
> * applets export conteinmenttype, so they can know whether they are in
> the systray
> * weather plasmoid uses containmenttype now, instead of the hack it used
> to)
> * more work on systemsettings categorizing, investigating why deco kcm
> has a wrong name in sidebar
>
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