SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-08

Meeting Time

 * 2008-04-08 16:00 UTC
 * #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

 * GeraldCox
 * KevinKofler
 * LukasTinkl
 * RexDieter
 * SebastianVahl
 * ShawnStarr

Agenda

 * topics to discuss:
 * Last preparations for final development freeze (same day )
 * kdepim requires kdebase3?
 * state of konq-plugins (ReviewRequest )
 * Administrator mode in systemsettings (again)
 * Missing default face icon (#441154 )
 * BootManager=None in in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc (#441313 )
 * Switch to Waves Artwork (KDM, Background, ColorScheme; what's still missing?) (#441167 )
 * Release notes (re-check: is anything missing?)

Transcript

 * fedora-kde-sig-2008-04-08.txt

Summary
Last preparations for final development freeze (same day):
 * Final development freeze was before the meeting.
 * Documentation in kde-l10n is still broken and excluded from the build.
 * This was not considered as a blocker for Fedora 9 and would be released as an update if/when it is fixed.

'''kdepim requires kdebase3? (#441541 )''':
 * The "First Start Wizard" was reported to not work properly without kdebase3 being installed.
 * POP3 and STMP operations are also not working without some related kio slaves from kdebase3.
 * kdepim fully requiring kdebase3(-libs) would blow-up the live images.
 * A solution for this may be to identify the needed parts in kdebase3 and split them out in a kdebase3-mail-ioslaves sub package.

state of konq-plugins (ReviewRequest) :
 * Review hasn't started yet, although there seems to be no show-stoppers found in a short test.
 * The "Obsoletes: kdeaddons" should maybe be moved from extragear-plasma to konq-plugins.
 * But for this the package has to be in GA at release time.
 * It could also be released only as an update after GA without the Obsoletes.

Administrator mode in systemsettings (again) :
 * In System Settings the sections "Login Manager" and "Samba" require root privileges.
 * This isn't implemented upstream yet and proper upstream support for this issues will likely be included in KDE 4.1.
 * LukasTinkl was working on a workaround to fix this which isn't included yet.
 * Until this is addressed by upstream the patch will be included (with tag requesting to rel-eng)

Missing default face icon (#441154) :
 * KDM with a user list theme didn't displayed a default face icon.
 * This is already fixed in kdebase-workspace-4.0.3-7.fc9.

BootManager=None in in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc (#441313) :
 * SebastianVahl reported an issue that he has to pick one kernel of a list of kernels when trying to reboot from KDM to actually reboot.
 * BootManager=None would only workaround this issue.
 * This is a bug which should be fixed instead.
 * #374011 is related to the configuration entry.

Switch to Waves Artwork (KDM, Background, ColorScheme; what's still missing?) (#441167) :
 * KSplash was switched to a matching waves artwork some time ago.
 * KDM was recently switched to non-themed greeter with the current waves wallpaper as an initial implementation.
 * Unfortunately the work on the wallpapers is still on-going.
 * Also a matching ColorScheme isn't existing at the moment.

Release notes (re-check: is anything missing?):
 * The release notes should be fine.
 * Final freeze for zero-day release notes is 18 April.

Comments
(These comments are written after the meeting)