SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-10-07

Meeting Time

 * 2008-10-07 16:00 UTC
 * #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

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

Agenda

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

Transcript

 * KDE-SIG-2008-10-07.txt

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

'''Plasma backports? (see also plasma-4.1-openSUSE)''':
 * OpenSUSE did some backports of plasma features in their KDE-4.1 version.
 * At least the autohide functionality 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 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:
 * Kubuntu has implemented support for multimedia keys in kmix.
 * KevinKofler isolated the needed changes.
 * 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:
 * %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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