Plasma/20100306

Plasma KDE SC 4.5 Goal Setting Meeting

Attendees

• Aaron Seigo
• Chani Armitage
• Marco Martin
• Fredrik Hoglund
• Artur de Souza
• Ivan Cukic
• Jacopo de Simoi
• Alessandro Diaferia
• Will Stephenson (minutes)

Activities

• New activity chooser needed for 4.5
• CA: to write up activities design from Tokamak4
• Sources at trunk/playground/base/nepomuk-kde/libactivities
• Needs splitting into kded module and nepomuk service

Mobile

• AS: mobile important because changes here affect the rest of the platform
• MM concentration on mobile over polish for 4.5
• AS: 4.5 to include Mobile Shell Tech Preview

Polish

• How can the polish be coordinated? Wiki?
  • Workflow needed to make regular progress visible and know who is working on what.
  • http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Polish
• JS: general performance and responsiveness improvements needed - valgrind
  • AS: yes, but target specific components
• AS has been polishing extenders
  • MM would like to be able to detach extenders to separate view windows, and make extendergroups real parents of their group items.
• Exec dataengine should become a Service
• AdS: 4.5 will be compared with 3.5 by everyone. Therefore Plasma needs as much polish as possible for 4.5.
• JS: solid and dolphin notifications could be moved to the normal framework, for more consistency
• JS: would like to enable DnD of devices to the desktop
  • AS: could somehow use semantic tagging to route all these notifications
• FH considering getting rid of the listview popup in folderview, and show the icon view in the popup instead, better with vertical panels
• FH: when you toggle compositing the margins in all toplevel plasma windows are screwed up afterwards. MM to handle
• FH: kpixmapcache has a crash when when you change the color scheme, plasma theme, wallpaper, toggle compositing, enable/disable a desktop effect
• MM: big bug of randomly freezing event loops
• AS: KRunner hits need paging, Amarok runner may return 40000 hits, creating 40000 ResultItems, very slowly.
• Quicksand KRunner interface is basically unmaintained
  • AdS: Move it back to playground?
  • AS: leaving it unpolished may encourage someone to contribute
• AS: Widget Explorer needs polishing
• Remote Widgets
  • MM: Need a way to migrate configuration of remote widgets

Drag and Drop

• CA: plasmoid DnD sucks
• FH: there is an outstanding merge request for adding alpha support in drag & drop pixmaps

Javascript

• New features for JS
  • DataEngines
  • Runners
  • Animations
  • plasmoid improvements
• AS: could use help but can manage if none is forthcoming

Pastebin/Sharebin

• AdS: would like to get Sharebin in 4.5 but may not have time. Uses scripted plugins, like how Comic plasmoid works.

Notifications and Systray

• MM has been focusing on this for 4.5, the broad features are basically done

Dataengine caching between boots

• MM would like DataEngines to be able to cache old query results, giving content on reboot when network is down
• AS: could be a job for Plasma::Storage

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