Monday meeting notes for 6/5/2024

[Marco Martin]

Kai Uwe
fixed audio indicators in task manager not working after the
pulseaudio-qt port – turns out there’s a subtle API difference between
the two that broke the lookup by stream index.

jpetso
    Continued work on my per-monitor brightness branch. Current MR
backlog: (1, 2, 3, 4), more coming up but still grouping code together
into reviewable chunks.
        After working through code and Bugzilla, I am now convinced
that dimming will always be at least a little buggy unless we store
display brightness for all "managed" displays across reboots &
hotplugging events. Will make another push for replacing Power
Management KCM's "Change screen brightness" transition in power state
profiles to simply "Screen brightness" persistent state.
    Tweaks for New ComboBoxWithCustomValue component from Screen
Locker KCM following review comments, with an aim to upstream it to
Kirigami once approved for the KCM itself.
        I'm also hoping for Kirigami.Dialog preferredWidth auto-expand
fix to get reviewed now that Carl's redesign is in, to allow moving
forward on standardizing Screen Locker's DurationPromptDialog.
    Made "Shader Wallpaper" plugin work in the lock screen by
assigning the wallpaper context property early enough for bindings to
use. In response to a Discuss thread about having lock screen savers.
Also needs review.


Nico
I worked towards deploying applets as QML modules. I have a working
prototype, still needs to be clean up a bit
There's still some places like the widgets explorer that assumes that
applets always have a KPackage, that needs to be cleaned up


Nate
I proposed a merge request template
(https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4247)
that seems to have gathered many opinions


Natalie
    Reworked releasing app inhibitions to permanently block an app -
reason combination instead of one inhibition occurrence. It works but
I'm now thinking it might still be useful to be able to block an
inhibition just once; currently working on a suitable frontend for it.
    What I have in mind is a sort of ComboButton, basically what can
be done with nested Kirigami actions but in a way that doesn't break
the layout and is styled appropriately when used outside toolbars. I
ws thinking of a Plasma component but not yet sure I'll succeed and if
it will have any other uses.
    Otherwise nothing noteworthy. Spent some time (mostly
unsuccessfully) educating myself about monitor connections and DDC/CI
and looking through bug reports.

Marco
* Merged the plasma popups workaround for the size bug in Qt 6.7
* Fighting against layershell for some panel sizing misbehaviors
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4274
* but actually started to look at a layershell protocol extension to
further improve things
* pushed taskbar refactor
* started a desktop edit mode ui redesign
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2235

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Marco Martin