SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-01-22

Meeting Time

• 2008-01-22 16:00 UTC
• #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

• KevinKofler
• LukasTinkl
• RexDieter
• SebastianVahl

Agenda

• topics to discuss:
• Preparing for Fedora 9 Alpha
• Upgrade path to KDE-4.0.0 (experiences from kde-redhat)
• Compiz and KWin decorations (Compiz still uses old KWin 3 decorations)
• Dropping compiz-kde support entirely? [1]
• comps-f9.xml
• recent bugs:
• 428212: unable to mount partitions in dolphin (Update)
• 378041: unable to mount removable/ntfs (Update)

Transcript

• fedora-kde-sig-2008-01-22.txt

Summary

Preparing for Fedora 9 Alpha:

• rawhide is now frozen and kde should be ready for Fedora 9 Alpha

Upgrade path to KDE-4.0.0 (experiences from kde-redhat):

• kdebase-workspace should be installed automatically during an upgrade (either in @kde-desktop or with Obsoletes: kdebase < 4)
• Some upgraders seems to have problems with kdelibs/kdelibs4 -> kdelibs3/kdelibs

Compiz and KWin decorations (Compiz still uses old KWin 3 decorations):

• Release Notes for kwin-4.0.0: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Why_not_Compiz.3F
• Compiz' kde-window-decorator is using KWin 3 API and libkdecoration will be removed from kdebase3 soon
• kde-desktop-effects should either be removed or reworked to also include kwin's desktop effects and compiz (with emerald)

comps-f9.xml:

• Packages that are obsolete now: d3lphin, kdeaddons, marble, ksudoku
• Missing packages: extragear-plasma, kaider, okteta, kdegames3, kdeaddons-atlantikdesigner

Open discussion:

• Kubuntu is workarounding #378041 and #428212 for KDE3 with hacks.
• The patches needs to be ported to KDE4. But there is enough time until F9 to allow some time for hal to get fixed
• LukasTinkl mentioned that upstream KDE would probably never support PolicyKit
• knetworkmanager-0.7 branch (for NetworkManager-0.7) isn't compiling yet

Comments

(These comments are written after the meeting)