SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-01

Meeting Time

• 2008-04-01 16:00 UTC
• #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

• GeraldCox
• KevinKofler
• LukasTinkl
• RexDieter
• SebastianVahl
• ThanNgo

Agenda

• topics to discuss:
• Waves desktop background
• New xine-lib PA plugin - bug #439731 , [1]
• State of konq-plugins (ReviewRequest )
• kdemultimedia3 pkg review bug #439701

Transcript

• fedora-kde-sig-2008-04-01.txt

Summary

Waves desktop background:

• Bug #439811 asks for also including the svgs in desktop-backgrounds to be able to use these instead of the pngs.

New xine-lib PA plugin:

• KDE currently uses the alsa output device through phonon to workaround the not-working PA plugin for xine.
• Since the native PulseAudio plugin for xine-lib is working again we'll test it when xine-lib is patched.
• Contingency plan: stay with the current ALSA solution.
• Test plan: Wait for xine-lib to include the PulseAudio plugin and test it with amarok or other xine apps.

kdemultimedia3 pkg review:

• A kdemultimedia3 compat package would contain libarts_* for arts support in KDE3 applications.
• Packages that still use arts: k3b, koffice-kpresenter, basket, taxipilot, kbilliards, allegro, gg2, kadu, xeuphoric, gnubg
• If possible, the packages should disable arts support (eg. if it's only used for playing hardcoded sounds).
• The package will be pulled from review for now.

state of konq-plugins:

• All plugins in konq-plugins should be tested for functionality.
• Not working plugins will be disabled.
• The akregator plugin will need kdepim to work properly but Sebastian Vahl wants to avoid a hard dependency on kdepim.
• Proper solutions would be:
• Create a sub package just for one plugin and let this package require kdepim.
• Omit akgreator from konq-addons.
• don't require kdepim at all (like kdeaddons does)
• add a short explanation to %description
• The decision was to use the latter.

Open discussion:

• KDM theme circles:
• Default KDM theme does not really fit between RHGB and Ksplash/Desktop background.
• Because there likely will be no GDM theme to adopt, one solution could be to use a non-themed KDM with "waves" as background wallpaper.

Comments

(These comments are written after the meeting)