Plasma/Tokamak7

Tokamak 7 takes place from 10 January to 16 January in Barcelona, Spain, at the Blue Systems office.

Technical

• Systemtray review
  • Reducing AppletInterface diff between systray and scriptengine, merge parts into Plasma::Applet?
  • Sharing url interception code
  • More async
  • on demand creation of plasmoids: based on dbus?
• asyncness: a fullRepresentation property as compactRepresentation?
• PackageUrlInterceptor
  • forbid private imports from other applets?
  • can we rely on it? the promise it will be guaranteed to work seems quite unreliable
• components: API review
• qml scriptengine and "plasmoid" object: API review
• Calendars in QtQuick, KDEPIM and Plasma
• Structuring of Look and Feel components
• memory usage: can we improve?
• Investigate getting rid of *Interface classes

Architecture

• Defining the workspace and its dependencies (The Reference)
• Reduce duplication in qmlpackages/blank and qmlpackages/desktop (Done)
• Session startup
• base features still missing
  • global shortcuts
  • autohide panels
  • finish the dashboard
• workflow gaping holes: exactly identifying what needs to be done right now and create tasks
• Moving QtExtraComponents to a separate lower tier framework (possibly split into tier1 Qt only, and tier3 with KDE things) (kdeclarative?)

UI / Design

• Kickoff: redesign? - what do we expect from a launcher? (Done)
• finalize widgetexplorer/activitymanager ui: so implementation can be finalized
  • separate activity switcher from widget explorer (new ui proposal) (Done)
• "strongly encourage" using Oxygen font -- how to do that?
• Theme and visual appearance changes (Done)
  • Spacing
  • Animation duration (revise animation components, component for menus)
  • Merge PlasmaCore's ThemeProxy and Plasma::Theme?
• Consistent OSD. Martin K to implement.

Organisational / Social / Process

• State of Wayland
• State of KWin/5
• Social situation
• Release Management: When? Name? Who is in charge? What else?

• Discuss Improving reviews / workflow
• Developing better tools for testing
• Definition of essential workflows to test against