SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-01

Meeting Time

 * 2008-04-01 16:00 UTC
 * #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

 * GeraldCox
 * KevinKofler
 * LukasTinkl
 * RexDieter
 * SebastianVahl
 * ThanNgo

Agenda

 * topics to discuss:
 * Waves desktop background
 * New xine-lib PA plugin - bug #439731 ,
 * State of konq-plugins (ReviewRequest )
 * kdemultimedia3 pkg review bug #439701

Transcript

 * fedora-kde-sig-2008-04-01.txt

Summary
Waves desktop background:
 * Bug #439811 asks for also including the svgs in desktop-backgrounds to be able to use these instead of the pngs.

New xine-lib PA plugin:
 * KDE currently uses the alsa output device through phonon to workaround the not-working PA plugin for xine.
 * Since the native PulseAudio plugin for xine-lib is working again we'll test it when xine-lib is patched.
 * Contingency plan: stay with the current ALSA solution.
 * Test plan: Wait for xine-lib to include the PulseAudio plugin and test it with amarok or other xine apps.

kdemultimedia3 pkg review:
 * A kdemultimedia3 compat package would contain libarts_* for arts support in KDE3 applications.
 * Packages that still use arts: k3b, koffice-kpresenter, basket, taxipilot, kbilliards, allegro, gg2, kadu, xeuphoric, gnubg
 * If possible, the packages should disable arts support (eg. if it's only used for playing hardcoded sounds).
 * The package will be pulled from review for now.

state of konq-plugins:
 * All plugins in konq-plugins should be tested for functionality.
 * Not working plugins will be disabled.
 * The akregator plugin will need kdepim to work properly but Sebastian Vahl wants to avoid a hard dependency on kdepim.
 * Proper solutions would be:
 * Create a sub package just for one plugin and let this package require kdepim.
 * Omit akgreator from konq-addons.
 * don't require kdepim at all (like kdeaddons does)
 * add a short explanation to %description
 * The decision was to use the latter.

Open discussion:
 * KDM theme circles:
 * Default KDM theme does not really fit between RHGB and Ksplash/Desktop background.
 * Because there likely will be no GDM theme to adopt, one solution could be to use a non-themed KDM with "waves" as background wallpaper.

Comments
(These comments are written after the meeting)