Monday meeting notes for 27/6/2022

[Marco Martin]

Nico
* Fixed a performance regression in thumbnail code:
https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-extras/-/merge_requests/166
* Simplified some plasma-nm code:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/merge_requests/126
* Made a patch for AppstreamQt to make it not break C++20 builds:
https://github.com/ximion/appstream/pull/414
* Needed for when we want to use C++20 in Plasma, which I hope is soon
* Fixed some KIO popups not having a parent window:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/872
* made a patch for plasma-nm to refactor some code by using
coroutines: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/merge_requests/124
* Which is mostly a RFC for using coroutines in Plasma
* See also https://invent.kde.org/network/kaccounts-integration/-/merge_requests/35
for why coroutines are awesome
* I found a problem though: Our FreeBSD builders don't have the
necessary deps ATM, due to libc++ being behind on things
* So we need to double check if/when we can rely on it

Jonathan
* 5.25.1 is out and 5.25.2 is tomorrow
* see my email to the list today with questions
* is the 5.26 schedule still lovely?
* I have 5.24.6 due next week but I'm away on holiday, can I delay it a week?
[discussion agreed is fine, then every 6 months after that]

Fusan
* Show EXIF title and author in wallpaper image plugin:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1852
* Time of day wallpaper:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1862
* note: I still have no time to absorb vladzzag's great code, so
solar/day-night is not added for now.

Arjen
* I did a bunch of work on plasma-nm to improve how it works in
combination with iwd (inet wireless daemon by intel)
* it's this intel project to replace wpa_supplicant as wireless
backend for networkmanager
* anyway, most prominently I did an mr that provides a config option
to create system connections by default and which links together the
"all users can connect" checkbox with the storage location for
passwords, so that if you create a system connection the password is
also stored system wide
* https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/merge_requests/125
* I also found and did an mr to fix a bug where trying to connect to a
network that shows the config dialog we only add a connection and
don't immediately connect:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/merge_requests/128
* if anyone knows networkmanagerqt it'd also be nice to get a review
on https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/networkmanager-qt/-/merge_requests/23
* which would allow a fair bit of cleanup in the plasma-nm codebase

Nate
* I want to briefly discuss
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/556
and https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/557,
which just came up
[Marco: would like to have one scaling method on x11 as a prerequisite
oof trying to properly fix]

Marco
# Kirigami
* further work on scrollablePage refactor
# KWin
* bugfixes on the desktop grid
* merged the overview window thumbnails refactor
* first draft version of the kwin tiling work, can already be testable
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/2560
* Better focus handling in fullscreen qml effects (merged)
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/2572