SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-05-13

Meeting Time

 * 2008-05-13 16:00 UTC
 * #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

 * GeraldCox
 * KevinKofler
 * LukasTinkl
 * MarieEllenFoster
 * RexDieter
 * SebastianVahl
 * ShawnStarr
 * ThanNgo

Agenda

 * topics to discuss:
 * Celebrating the release of Fedora 9 :)
 * Dropping Phonon "ALSA default device" hack?
 * _qt4_bindir (reverted for now due to, what next?)
 * Status of kpackagekit (1 )
 * iclock applet (International Clock applet for Qt4/KDE4) - comments, opinions, inclusion into F10
 * Recapitulate the way to F9 and initial release planning for F10

Transcript

 * fedora-kde-sig-2008-05-13.txt

Summary
Celebrating the release:
 * Fedora's KDE4 got mentioned in a Distrowatch Feature.
 * There were some reports that spell-checking in kate is broken.

dropping Phonon "ALSA default device" hack?:
 * In the past we used a hack to force Phonon to use Alsa by default if native PulseAudio support was broken.
 * Since xine-lib-pulseaudio is more reliable the hack will be dropped.

qt4 bindir:
 * the use of %{_bindir} as %{_qt4_bindir} was reverted because it causes/fixes some bugs: #446167 and #422291.
 * Instead of this the following solution will be used:
 * keep %{_qt4_bindir} and %{_bindir} separate.
 * move the executables to %{_bindir}.
 * keep %{_qt4_bindir} as a directory and use symlinks from there to %{_bindir} (or wrapper scripts if that works better).
 * This allows us to keep only qmake-qt4 in %{_bindir} and both qmake and qmake-qt4 in %{_qt4_bindir} for F8 and possibly F9, and only have a %{_bindir}/qmake in qt 4 in F10+.

status of kpackagekit:
 * RichardHughes mentioned a KDE frontend for PackageKit in his blog.
 * LukasTinkl will have a closer look at kpackagekit.

iclock applet (International Clock applet for Qt4/KDE4):
 * LukasTinkl created a clock applet fot Qt4/KDE4 and asked for feedback.
 * He will also submit a package for review to include this in F10.

Planning for F10:
 * KDE's core components in Rawhide are now at 4.0.72 (4.1 alpha1 + 1 week).
 * kdepim needs work.
 * libopensync-plugin-kdepim needs to be upgraded to a development snapshot.
 * basket also needs to be upgraded to a KDE4 based snapshot (or basket support in kdepim needs to be disabled).
 * kdevelop: needs kdevplatform packaged and reviewed.
 * kde-l10n: kdepim and kdevelop will be handled first before the translations from kde-i18n will be switched to kde-l10n.
 * kdewebdev will stay at kde-3.5 because Quanta won't be ready for KDE 4.1.
 * RexDieter started to work on koffice-2.

Comments
(These comments are written after the meeting)