SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-18

Meeting Time

topics to discuss:
PolicyKit integration (#428212 )
KDE4 in Desktop User Guide (Request by Marc Wiriadisastra )
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not see any KDE4 content there, just F8/KDE3 references. ?? -- Rex
Status of konq-plugins
recent bugs:
kmix/mute doesn't work (#437962 )

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).

Desktop User Guide:

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.

kmix/mute doesn't work:

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.
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.