KDE-SIG weekly report (41/2008)

[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: 41/2008

Time: 2008-10-07 16:00 UTC

Meeting page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-10-07

Meeting log:
http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/c3/KDE-SIG-2008-10-07.txt

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= Participants =

* JaroslavReznik
* KevinKofler
* LorenzoVillani
* LukasTinkl
* RexDieter
* SebastianVahl
* StevenParrish
* ThanNgo 

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= Agenda =

* Replacing gnome-packagekit with kpackagekit on KDE live images?
* Mysterious cmake failure on ppc64 [1]
* Plasma backports? (see also plasma-4.1-openSUSE [2])
* KMix multimedia key support (Kubuntu patch)
* find-lang-like macro for KDE documentation 

= Summary =

kpackagekit:
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* The decision of making kpackagekit the default on the live images
was postponed to next week.
* So there will be some extra time to test kpackagekit. 

Mysterious cmake failure on ppc64:
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* ppc64 builds of kdepim always fail with various cmake errors. [1]
* This also prevents us from fixing the broken libgnokii.so.3
dependency.
* It's unclear what's going wrong there. 

Plasma backports?:
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* OpenSUSE did some backports of plasma features in their KDE-4.1
version. [2]
* At least the autohide functionality [3] of the plasma panel is also
interesting for us (and was also frequently requested).
* A problem will be that all these backports will be (mostly)
untranslated until KDE-4.2.
* We'll try to backport the autohide functionality with avoiding
the unnecessary string changes in it's translation.
* Another intersting one is the folderview backport [4] with the
ability to save icon positions across sessions.
* But here these changes aren't properly isolated and don't worth
the trouble of a backport. 

KMix multimedia key support:
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* Kubuntu has implemented support for multimedia keys in kmix.
* KevinKofler isolated the needed changes. [5]
* One big disadvantage is that the volume slider is always
hardcoded to "Master:0".
* It also introduces some new strings that aren't translated yet.
* Another disadvantage is that Kubuntu's patch isn't send to
upstream yet.
* We'll talk to the responsible Kubuntu maintainer first before
making further decisions. 


find-lang-like macro for KDE documentation:
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*  %find_lang doesn't has proper support for KDE documentation at
the moment.
* It should be patched to better support the "--kde" parameter
* The currently used copy&pasted scripts could be avoided then.
* Another solution could be a macro in kde-filesystem.
* The advantage here will be that we could implement this earlier
(though %find_lang is the better place for this). 

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= Next Meeting =

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-10-14

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= Links =

[1]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg00366.html
[2] http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/plasma-4.1-openSUSE/?view=log
[3] http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=864493
[4] http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=863348
[5]
http://repo.calcforge.org/f10/kubuntu_02_kmix_keyboard_shortcuts.diff
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