SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-05-13

Meeting Time

• 2008-05-13 16:00 UTC
• #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

• GeraldCox
• KevinKofler
• LukasTinkl
• MarieEllenFoster
• RexDieter
• SebastianVahl
• ShawnStarr
• ThanNgo

Agenda

• topics to discuss:
• Celebrating the release of Fedora 9 :)
• Dropping Phonon "ALSA default device" hack? [1]
• _qt4_bindir (reverted for now due to [2] , what next?)
• Status of kpackagekit (1 )
• iclock applet (International Clock applet for Qt4/KDE4) - comments, opinions, inclusion into F10 [3]
• Recapitulate the way to F9 and initial release planning for F10

Transcript

• fedora-kde-sig-2008-05-13.txt

Summary

Celebrating the release:

• Fedora's KDE4 got mentioned in a Distrowatch Feature .
• There were some reports that spell-checking in kate is broken.

dropping Phonon "ALSA default device" hack?:

• In the past we used a hack to force Phonon to use Alsa by default if native PulseAudio support was broken.
• Since xine-lib-pulseaudio is more reliable the hack will be dropped.

qt4 bindir:

• the use of %{_bindir} as %{_qt4_bindir} was reverted because it causes/fixes some bugs: #446167 and #422291 .
• Instead of this the following solution will be used:
• keep %{_qt4_bindir} and %{_bindir} separate.
• move the executables to %{_bindir}.
• keep %{_qt4_bindir} as a directory and use symlinks from there to %{_bindir} (or wrapper scripts if that works better).
• This allows us to keep only qmake-qt4 in %{_bindir} and both qmake and qmake-qt4 in %{_qt4_bindir} for F8 and possibly F9, and only have a %{_bindir}/qmake in qt 4 in F10+.

status of kpackagekit:

• RichardHughes mentioned a KDE frontend for PackageKit in his blog .
• LukasTinkl will have a closer look at kpackagekit.

iclock applet (International Clock applet for Qt4/KDE4):

• LukasTinkl created a clock applet fot Qt4/KDE4 and asked for feedback.
• He will also submit a package for review to include this in F10.

Planning for F10:

• KDE's core components in Rawhide are now at 4.0.72 (4.1 alpha1 + 1 week).
• kdepim needs work.
• libopensync-plugin-kdepim needs to be upgraded to a development snapshot.
• basket also needs to be upgraded to a KDE4 based snapshot (or basket support in kdepim needs to be disabled).
• kdevelop: needs kdevplatform packaged and reviewed.
• kde-l10n: kdepim and kdevelop will be handled first before the translations from kde-i18n will be switched to kde-l10n.
• kdewebdev will stay at kde-3.5 because Quanta won't be ready for KDE 4.1.
• RexDieter started to work on koffice-2.

Comments

(These comments are written after the meeting)