SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-08

Meeting Time

topics to discuss:
Last preparations for final development freeze (same day )
kdepim requires kdebase3?
state of konq-plugins (ReviewRequest )
Administrator mode in systemsettings (again)
Missing default face icon (#441154 )
BootManager=None in in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc (#441313 )
Switch to Waves Artwork (KDM, Background, ColorScheme; what's still missing?) (#441167 )
Release notes (re-check: is anything missing?)

Last preparations for final development freeze (same day):

Final development freeze was before the meeting.
Documentation in kde-l10n is still broken and excluded from the build.
This was not considered as a blocker for Fedora 9 and would be released as an update if/when it is fixed.

kdepim requires kdebase3? (#441541 ):

The "First Start Wizard" was reported to not work properly without kdebase3 being installed.
POP3 and STMP operations are also not working without some related kio slaves from kdebase3.
kdepim fully requiring kdebase3(-libs) would blow-up the live images.
A solution for this may be to identify the needed parts in kdebase3 and split them out in a kdebase3-mail-ioslaves sub package.

state of konq-plugins (ReviewRequest) :

Review hasn't started yet, although there seems to be no show-stoppers found in a short test.
The "Obsoletes: kdeaddons" should maybe be moved from extragear-plasma to konq-plugins.
But for this the package has to be in GA at release time.
It could also be released only as an update after GA without the Obsoletes.

Administrator mode in systemsettings (again) :

In System Settings the sections "Login Manager" and "Samba" require root privileges.
This isn't implemented upstream yet and proper upstream support for this issues will likely be included in KDE 4.1.
LukasTinkl was working on a workaround to fix this which isn't included yet.
Until this is addressed by upstream the patch will be included (with tag requesting to rel-eng)

Missing default face icon (#441154) :

BootManager=None in in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc (#441313) :

SebastianVahl reported an issue that he has to pick one kernel of a list of kernels when trying to reboot from KDM to actually reboot.
BootManager=None would only workaround this issue.
This is a bug which should be fixed instead.
#374011 is related to the configuration entry.

Switch to Waves Artwork (KDM, Background, ColorScheme; what's still missing?) (#441167) :

KSplash was switched to a matching waves artwork some time ago.
KDM was recently switched to non-themed greeter with the current waves wallpaper as an initial implementation.
Unfortunately the work on the wallpapers is still on-going.
Also a matching ColorScheme isn't existing at the moment.

Release notes (re-check: is anything missing?):

(These comments are written after the meeting)