Monday meeting notes for 15/11/2021

[Marco Martin]

Kai Uwe
plasma-browser-integration:
    * Firefox 1.8.1 has been released a few weeks back, bringing the
app back into the store, thanks fvogt and d_ed for support
    * Support wildcard in media controls blacklist, please review:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-browser-integration/-/merge_requests/63
        I am also working on a UI to manage the domains list but
that's not strictly necessary for this imho
    * "Rename Plasma Search to KRunner"
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-browser-integration/-/merge_requests/56
but VDG has hinted they want to change name again... so I am hesistant
to merge
Notifications:
    * Wanted to delay showing screenshot notification until thumbnail
is ready, however sometimes causes popup to not show at all :/
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1162
    * Emit moving while renaming, fixes job tracker display for
trashing loads of files:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/624
Plasma:
    * Port from deprecated Plasma::Applet constructor:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-browser-integration/-/merge_requests/56
    * What shall we do with
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/551 and
to some extent https://invent.kde.org/network/krdc/-/merge_requests/19
Other:
    Show non-default Port in full host name (%H) in tab bar in Konsole
(so you can tell apart several connections to the same host on
different ports):
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/521


Arjen
* half my week was spent looking into drag and drop problems, turns
out Qt does not support the most recent version of the wayland drag
and drop protocol
* but there's already a patch for implementing that which fixes most
of the issues
* and makes it a lot simpler to handle touch drag and drop
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/334777 needs to
land in qt6, then can be backported to our patch collection
* so now I'm looking into touch support for KWin's overview effect,
which means adding touch forwarding to KWin's QuickEffectView
* which unfortunately turns out to be another potential rabbit hole
since kwin's internal touch handling is quite different from what Qt
expects
* but it may need more extensive changes


Aleix
* Discover: Did look into Discover entirely stopping updates of
compulsory packages so it never happens that the distro suggests to
uninstall everything and the user just accepts it.
* Purpose: There's a PoC in a merge request about more ad-hoc sharing
API for our apps, so the workflows can be better documented.
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/purpose/-/merge_requests/45
* Homescreen: this one is a bit stuck, it's about having applications
list themselves with their GenericName on Plasma Mobile. It's a bit
stuck because some apps really identify as their branded name.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-phone-components/-/merge_requests/203
* KDE Connect Virtual Monitors feature is done and could use review. I
think it's especially interesting from a Plasma perspective.
https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/merge_requests/427

Marco
# Plasma/Plamo
* reviewing stuff
# Kirigami
* Spent a bit of time around Noah's review
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/merge_requests/415 to
find workable solutions, making last tests to the patch now, but seems
it's almost ready (tm)
# Wayland
* in general going trough the visible ui/interaction papercuts i'm seeing
* More time spent on the OSD issue, ended up with a patch in p-f, one
in the OSD qml in p-w, and after some investigation on a
kwayland-server patch which Vlad did the final form of it
* More time investigating wrong blur regions. the actual window with
blur behind doesn't get a commit. This fixes it
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwayland-integration/-/merge_requests/15
tough may need a more proper solution
* workaround to send slighly smaller blur and contrastregions to the
contrast effect so corners won't bleed over when scaling is on, very
visible look improvement
* looking into morphinpopups for wayland, have a patch
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/1652 which i'm
reworking based on feedback now