Akademy/2023/Embedded BoF

House Keeping Topics

1. Getting started page
   • new page in preparation at Yocto/GettingStarted
   • goal: understand what KDE embedded is about and how to get started
   • comments for current state:
     • explain difference between layers and product/demo
     • references to Yocto documentation
2. CI
   • use riscv as default target, because this is not tested by any other CI
   • current work in progress, following concept of last year
3. layers.open-embedded.org
   • meta-kde, meta-kf5 and meta-kf6 are registered
   • meta-kf6 currently not found because of parsing errors because of meta-qt6 branch structure
     • according to OE upstream, this will take quite some time until the layer parsing is fixed, because it is rather a rewrite of the website
     • fill QTBUG and discuss upstream if they can provide alias branches for kirkstone, mickledore... to help OE passing the parsing
4. status of KF6 and Qt6 based packaging in general
   • kf6 builds & works
   • plasma-6 works as desktop shell, others not yet
     • remaining problematic Qt5-only dependency is Maliit Keyboard
     • all device specific patches could be removed
     • applications not being built for now

Discussion on General Scope of Embedded in KDE

• we have the following main goals:
  • work on demos: we want to attract people outside of the typical desktop communities
  • work on meta layer packaging: we want to make industry adoption of KDE software easier
• ideas for story arc for next FOSDEM's demo stall (or any other conference)
  • focus on topics around home-automation/home infotainment (full screen Elisa, full screen system monitor...)
  • simple Plasma nano based shell for switching full screen apps?
  • combination with shell switch mechanism to desktop shell?