KDE-SIG weekly report (12/2008)

[Sebastian Vahl]

This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the 
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
 to this email or add it to the related meeting page.

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= Weekly KDE Summary =

Week: 12/2008

Time: 2008-03-18 16:00 UTC

Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-18

Meeting log: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-18?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=fedora-kde-sig-2008-03-18.txt

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= Participants =

- KevinKofler
- LukasTinkl
- RexDieter
- SebastianVahl

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= Agenda =

topics to discuss: 
- PolicyKit integration (#428212) 
- KDE4 in Desktop User Guide (Request by Marc Wiriadisastra) [1,2]
- Status of konq-plugins 

recent bugs: 
- kmix/mute doesn't work (#437962) 

= Summary =

o PolicyKit integration: 
- KevinKofler adapted a patch which should work but is not tested yet. 
- It fixes PolicyKit related problems in KDE3 and KDE4. 
- Although these bugs have been reported against either KDE3 or KDE4 they 
probably affect both versions. 
- KDE4 (#428212: unable to mount partitions in dolphin): 
 * The patch uses "kdesu dbus-send" when HAL returns a 
PermissionDeniedByPolicy error. 
- KDE3 (#378041: unable to mount removable/ntfs): 
 * The uid is only passed to the 4 filesystems for which HAL allows it without 
throwing an "unknown error". 
 * But HAL would the the better place to fix this by doing one of these: 
  - not listing the uid= option as allowed if it's going to error with 
a "TODO" on it. 
  - doing something sensible with uid=, even if it's PermissionDeniedByPolicy 
for non-root. 
 * Because HAL seems to work fine in F7 the patch will be included in F8 only 
(for KDE3). 

o Desktop User Guide: 
- The current DUG is outdated and only for KDE3. 
- MarcWiriadisastra will update it for KDE4 after the beta is released. [3]
- We should review all other pages for needed changes. 

o Status of konq-plugins: 
- konq-plugins contains additional plugins for konqueror (mostly from former 
kdeaddons). 
- The package will be submitted for review ASAP. 
- But it still needs some testing because it's unmaintained upstream. 

o kmix/mute doesn't work: 
- The bug was not reproducible by other KDE SIG members. 
- So not working muting in kmix seems to be a local/configuration issue. 

o Open discussion: 
- kaudiocreator: 
 * kaudiocreator is too unstable to ship it. 
 * So it will be marked as deferred from KDE4Status (so that FeatureKDE4 is 
able to reach 100%). 
 - PackageKit: 
  * OpenSuse seems to be developing a KDE4 frontend for PackageKit. [4]
  * But Fedora 9 will ship gnome-packagekit as a frontend. 
  * pk-update-icon isn't automatically started at login because it is located 
in /usr/share/gnome/autostart. 
  * Bug #437048 will be re-opened to request moving it to /etc/xdg/autostart.


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= Next Meeting =

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-25

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= Links =

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/DesktopUserGuide
[2] http://mwiriadi.livejournal.com/4529.html
[3] http://mwiriadi.livejournal.com/4529.html?thread=4785#t4785
[4] 
http://wire.dattitu.de/archives/2008/03/15/KDE4-port-of-openSUSE-Updater,-KDE-4.1-snapshot-4.0.66,-FOSDEM-talk.html

= Buglist =

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378041
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428212
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437048
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437962

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