Plasma/Workspace Sprint/Kanban: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:09, 16 June 2012

Make distros ship defaults
- Distros to look up to: Kubuntu, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, Chakra, Mageia, Fedora
- Collect defaults, ask why?
- Proceed to merge to upstream if it's a sensible change. ignore the changes (if it's just branding/wallpapering), or negotiate middle grounds.
Review default activities
- Make sure they are useful, gain expertise in them
- Improve naming
Location API
NM redesign
- Implement new applet following future guidelines (QML port in progress)
- Redesign current KCM to improve usability
- Previous work
Web accounts
Activities support in apps
- Konversation, ¿Quassel?. Activity per chat room, global chat rooms?
- KDevelop. Match Session and activity
- PIM. Depends on the application, need feedback from PIM developers.
- Gwenview. Improve welcome page to match the activity
- Konqueror, rekonq. Browsing+Activities FTW
- Firefox, Chrome. Figure out if we can get something done there, maybe extensions?
- KDE Telepathy
  - Blocking on a usability discussion documented on the KTp mailing lists about Global Presence. Emailing Usability Expert.
- Yakuake. Different tab sets per activity?
Consolidate screen edge actions
Taskbar entries should be merged with KSNI
- Find a way of making application developers stop using the systray as a taskbar.
- We must find a way of merge KSNI and taskbar entries.
- It seems that Canonical developed something called BAMF that apparently does the job. Research BAMF.

Startup performance
- Plasma start-up profiling
- Nepomuk start-up profiling
- Nepomuk on-demand activation
- KDED start-up profiling
- Figure out if some tooling is needed?
Screen Management
- Mechanisms to start working fast after connecting a monitor
- Properly react to screen unplugging
- Make sure it's properly integrated with activities
Sync Framework
- Implement a Sync Framework, capable of having multiple backends
- Implement Owncloud support for sync framework
iPhone support
- Sync music
- Sync Calendar
- Sync Contacts
- Arranging app's
Streamline ui's look&feel of popup applets/panel
- Document inconsistencies we have right now (Bluetooth, Network, Klipper...)
- Create guidelines of how applets should look (Bluetooth, Network, Klipper...)
Visual feedback on window edges
- Make present windows discoverable
- Visual feedback on hot corners
- See: KWin/Screen_Edges
- Improve visual feedback for hidden panels
IM needs improvement
- The Plasma experience of IM is not perfect. The Telepathy team is on it.

"Open-with" dialog redesign
- Only list apps supporting the file mime-type
- Reduce list as user types
- Produce good-looking .desktop files when the "Always use" checkbox is checked

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 * "Open-with" dialog redesign
 ** Only list apps supporting the file mime-type
-** Reduce list as user type
+** Reduce list as user types
 ** Produce good-looking .desktop files when the "Always use" checkbox is checked