SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2007-12-18

Meeting Time

• 2007-12-18 16:00 UTC
• #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

• KevinKofler
• LukasTinkl
• SebastianVahl
• ThanNgo

Agenda

• topics to discuss:
• Trolltech's Phonon GStreamer backend
• kdemultimedia3 compat package?
• API documentation
• Live images for KDE4
• development progress: the road to kde4

Transcript

• File:SIGs KDE Meetings 2007(2d)12(2d)18_fedora-kde-sig-2007-12-18.txt]

Summary

Trolltech's Phonon GStreamer backend:

• Trolltech has committed a GStreamer backend for phonon which will likely become the upstream default for kde 4.1
• We'll have to wait until it gets usuable and use xine-lib for now

kdemultimedia3 compat package?

• at least taxipilot is relying on aRts-related libraries provided by kdemultimedia 3 which has now broken dependencies
• Also it's possible that some apps will fail at runtime due to trying to load some aRts modules which were in kdemultimedia3 and not finding them
• If we create a kdemultimedia3 we should make sure phonon, arts and pulseaudio work together
• taxipilot itself isn't ported to kde 4 yet
• there was no consensus if we drop taxipilot because of it's unmaintained kde4 state, patch it to don't use arts or create a kdemultimedia3 package
• If we create a kdemultimedia3 package we have to get it reviewed because it's not existing in cvs

API documentation:

• API documentation for kde 4 is currently not packaged but should be included in the future as -apidocs subpackages
• A suggestion by RexDieter was to package them seperately to get them noarch
• But this would mean to duplicate many spec files
• the current decision was to package them as a part of the current specs

Live images for KDE4:

• SebastianVahl created a tracker bug for monitoring the current MUST/SHOULD solve issues for the live images: #421891
• #422061 is working with selinux in permissive mode since yesterdays rawhide push
• in comparison to the kde3 live images the following applications were dropped: krusader, koffice-krita, twinkle and ktorrent
• the current package list: CurrentPackageList
• One of the biggest remaining issues is the non-working installer (#424811 ). JeremyKatz said he has a hack to workaround this

development progress: the road to kde4:

• kdeadmin, kaider and extragear-plasma are in rawhide now, kde-l10n is still being reviewed (#421231 ).
• the kde4 port of bluecurve is also awaiting review (#425872 )
• /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/common was splitted into a kdelibs-common subpackage (# 417251 )

recent bugs:

• flash plugin seems to be still not working on x86_64 (#410651 )
• but this seems to be an issue of nspluginwrapper and a separate bug report against nspluginwrapper is needed

Comments

(These comments are written after the meeting)