Plasma/20100306

Plasma KDE SC 4.5 Goal Setting Meeting

Attendees

Aaron Seigo
Chani Armitage
Marco Martin
Fredrik Hoglund
Artur de Souza
Ivan Cukic
Jacopo de Simoi
Alessandro Diaferia
Will Stephenson (minutes)

Activities

New activity chooser needed for 4.5
CA: to write up activities design from Tokamak4
Sources at trunk/playground/base/nepomuk-kde/libactivities
Needs splitting into kded module and nepomuk service

Mobile

AS: mobile important because changes here affect the rest of the platform
MM concentration on mobile over polish for 4.5
AS: 4.5 to include Mobile Shell Tech Preview

Polish

How can the polish be coordinated? Wiki?
- Workflow needed to make regular progress visible and know who is working on what.
- http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Polish
JS: general performance and responsiveness improvements needed - valgrind
- AS: yes, but target specific components
AS has been polishing extenders
- MM would like to be able to detach extenders to separate view windows, and make extendergroups real parents of their group items.
Exec dataengine should become a Service
AdS: 4.5 will be compared with 3.5 by everyone. Therefore Plasma needs as much polish as possible for 4.5.
JS: solid and dolphin notifications could be moved to the normal framework, for more consistency
JS: would like to enable DnD of devices to the desktop
- AS: could somehow use semantic tagging to route all these notifications
FH considering getting rid of the listview popup in folderview, and show the icon view in the popup instead, better with vertical panels
FH: when you toggle compositing the margins in all toplevel plasma windows are screwed up afterwards. MM to handle
FH: kpixmapcache has a crash when when you change the color scheme, plasma theme, wallpaper, toggle compositing, enable/disable a desktop effect
MM: big bug of randomly freezing event loops
AS: KRunner hits need paging, Amarok runner may return 40000 hits, creating 40000 ResultItems, very slowly.
Quicksand KRunner interface is basically unmaintained
- AdS: Move it back to playground?
- AS: leaving it unpolished may encourage someone to contribute
AS: Widget Explorer needs polishing
Remote Widgets
- MM: Need a way to migrate configuration of remote widgets

Drag and Drop

CA: plasmoid DnD sucks
FH: there is an outstanding merge request for adding alpha support in drag & drop pixmaps

Javascript

New features for JS
- DataEngines
- Runners
- Animations
- plasmoid improvements
AS: could use help but can manage if none is forthcoming

Pastebin/Sharebin

AdS: would like to get Sharebin in 4.5 but may not have time. Uses scripted plugins, like how Comic plasmoid works.

Notifications and Systray

MM has been focusing on this for 4.5, the broad features are basically done

Dataengine caching between boots

MM would like DataEngines to be able to cache old query results, giving content on reboot when network is down
AS: could be a job for Plasma::Storage

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