SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-09-09

Meeting Time

• 2008-09-09 16:00 UTC
• #fedora-meeting on freenode

Participants

• KevinKofler
• RexDieter
• SebastianVahl
• StevenParrish
• ThanNgo

Agenda

• topics to discuss:
  • FUDCon Brno report
  • KDE-4.1.1 status
  • Fedora 10 Beta (Release Schedule)
  • Echo Icon Theme will be default in F10, what will we use in KDE? (1, 2)
  • Fedora User Guide for F10 (1,2,3,4)

Transcript

• KDE-SIG-2008-09-09.txt

Summary

FUDCon Brno report

• KevinKofler reported from the FUDCON in Brno.
• The KDE-SIG was represented by KevinKofler, LukasTinkl and JaroslavReznik.
• They held a presentation about the "pillars of KDE 4" with small examples of how to use them as a developer and gave an overview of the goals with KDE4 in Fedora.

KDE-4.1.1 status

• KDE 4.1.1 is already built for F9 and queued for updates-testing.
• Also the KDE4-parts in Fedora 8 are queued for updates-testing.
• KDE 4.1.1 will stay in testing for one week and then go stable.

Fedora 10 Beta (Release Schedule)

• Fedora 10 Beta will still use nm-applet for controlling NetworkManager.
• The NetworkManager plasmoid isn't ready yet (it was scheduled for August).
• Alternatives would be the KDE3 based and KDE4 based knetworkmanager (but the latter didn't get many development in the past).
• SebastianVahl reported about the current state of the live images:
  • The Beta will likely come with this package list and this kickstart.
  • Main differences to the Alpha are: only @fonts (and so no additional fonts), without amarok (space issues)
  • kdelibs3 will still be on the live images (required by k3b, konversation, kftpgrabber, filelight, ksshaskpass)

Echo Icon Theme will be default in F10, what will we use in KDE?

• RexDieter tested Echo as first fallback in Fedora-KDE (before Oxygen) and reported it was working well for KDE4 apps.
• KDE3 apps still have to rely on CrystalSVG.
• kde-settings will be prepared to use Echo in Rawhide for testing.

Fedora User Guide for F10

• The "current" user guide for the KDE Desktop is still based on Fedora 8.
• We'll need some volunteers to update it for Fedora 10 (KDE 4.1) and also Fedora 9 (KDE 4.0).

Additional notes

• KDE 3.5.10 is queued for updates-testing in Fedora 8 (whole desktop) and Fedora 9 (only KDE3 parts).
• The review of kde-plasma-lancelot will be finished today.

Comments

(These comments are written after the meeting)