Plasma Meeting minutes 12-9-2016 Present: bshah, Sho, d_ed, mgraesslin, notmart, Riddell, sebas
Notes from Akademy: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-2k16-plasma-bof-topics bshah: - Rebuilding packages for mobile CI - Attempting to replace simplelogin with sddm on mobile - somehow sddm doesn't start d_ed: * Fixed some status notifier items not appearing * (hopefully) Fixed a very complex crash on shutdown * Fixed "empty panel" disappearing revert * Fixed network manager not coming back after restart * Fix sometimes not appearing * Fixed clock in vertical panel * Fixed keyboard nav in KCategorizedView * Met with Munich people: - demoed the script on applet creation. - they seemed pleased with it - still have some issues with icons on desktops, as icons on second desktop are not visible. * I have a tool to auto generate docs for plasma configs *REQUIRES ACTION FROM PLASMA DEVS* Sho: - Finished Pager rewrite and associated libtm changes, got it merged -- Blogged about it: https://blogs.kde.org/2016/09/06/plasma-58-more-efficient-pager-and-activity-pager-widgets - Added screen filtering option to Pager -- Blogged about that too: https://blogs.kde.org/2016/09/11/plasma-58-screen-pagers - Further Simple Menu (scratch/hein/simplemenu) UI adjustments - Better handling of demands-attention tasks when filtering by activity in libtm - Reviewed new Breeze task button theme - Merged long-gestating patch to fix FV rename editor geometry - Looking into making DND resorting on the Task Manager more robust, some bug reports - Had a planning meeting for the Seoul KDE birthday party, did some work on recruiting corporate sponsorship, petitioned the Neon team for the Koreanized USB image we need - Currently building Qt 5.8 branch - I got injured and developed a serious infection/abcess along the way, meant minor surgery and bouts of light fever, already fine again by now tho mgraesslin: * focus on Wayland bugs this weekh notmart: * at akademy mostly looked at bugs and reviews * got plasma running on 5.8 branch, little to no change in startup time * worked on kirigami, mostly with apol to see problems with discover * working on a last multiscreen issue in plasmashell: if the panel controller was open, switching primary screen always put panels at offset 0 * next week will motly look at bugs Riddell: * [...] sebas: - basic OSD for XF86Display button - Shorter KCM name, less scrollbars in English - will style the display identification in kscreen as well - got a new graphics card, 4K display now works on native resolution - but ... https://plus.google.com/+SebastianK%C3%BCgler/posts/Cx5S4xAgiNJ - some Plasma roadmap management planned - plugin caching stuff ended up on my list - further on to testing plasma on wayland -- sebas Sebastian Kügler • http://vizZzion.org • http://www.kde.org