Contents 1 Plasma Planning for 4.4 (June 27, 2009) 1.1 Attendees 1.2 Talking Points 1.2.1 plasma netbook 1.2.2 notification queuing and logging 1.2.3 full featured JavaScript API (binding Qt+KDE libs in full) 1.2.4 further extension of the Simple JavaScript API 1.2.5 kinetic 1.2.6 remote widgets/engines/services 1.2.7 D'n'D of remote content / remote content on canvas 1.2.8 context menus and mouse action plugins for containments 1.2.9 add widget dialog 1.2.10 improvements to ZUI (finally nail that crap) 1.2.11 window slide in/out in KWin 1.2.12 social desktop 1.2.13 plasmate 1.2.14 moving system tray from experimental to fd.o standard 1.2.15 krunner magic 1.2.16 developer documentation, website 1.2.17 kuiserver and plasma job display 1.2.18 autoupdating / checking of plasmoids 1.2.19 signing/trust 1.2.20 PIM / Akonadi 1.2.21 Desktop settings 1.2.22 Plasma D-Bus access 1.2.23 Multimedia components

[edit] Plasma Planning for 4.4 (June 27, 2009)

[edit] Attendees

• Aaron Seigo
• Chani Armitage
• Rob Scheepmaker
• Sebastian Kügler
• David Bettio
• Jeremy Whiting
• Marco Martin
• Ivan Čukić
• Nuno Pinheiro
• Richard Moore
• Alessandro Diaferia

[edit] Talking Points

[edit] plasma netbook

• work started and good progress made on newspaper layout and SAL
• shell actually loads and essentially works, so "first draft" is there
• Artur and MM will tag team on it at Akademy
• AS: the ARM CPU arch and plasma: get hardware to the people working on this

[edit] notification queuing and logging

• SK: queuing is something Canonical might be able to implement
• SK: display needs polishing (white space in there, too much info)
• AS: only show N max per application, log the really old ones, and alow expanding of recent items that exceed N
• AS: ability to separate new items from existing ones .. so .. two extenders? or switching what the extender is showing based on interaction context?

[edit] full featured JavaScript API (binding Qt+KDE libs in full)

• RM will catch up on what the status of the generator is, fire back report
• RM will coordinate with amarokers
• Goal: get a set of generator-created bindings for 4.4

[edit] further extension of the Simple JavaScript API

• Implement Keyboard status widget
• Implement video driven "welcome" plasmoid

[edit] kinetic

• SoC project?
• use it for our layouts as standard, or would that be overkill?
• replace existing clunky animation code (see battery.cpp f.e.)

[edit] remote widgets/engines/services

• RS Currently working: publishing/accessing remote Plasma::Services, including public key authentication, setting and testing rules for access, and now remote dataEngine access starts to basically work
• RS DataEngine::serviceForSource is not async, though it needs to be. Add serviceReady() signal to Service.

[edit] D'n'D of remote content / remote content on canvas

• fetching remote mimetype (half ready patch on sebas' disk)
• actually getting at the file using KIO: needs some applets fixed probably (frame has patch on sebas' disk

[edit] context menus and mouse action plugins for containments

• CA: it's on target for 4.4
• CA: UI is finally coming along with user testing:

• and the plugins CA will be implementing are listed in the proposal:

       http://chani.ccdevnet.org/soc-application-2009.txt

[edit] add widget dialog

• Ana's SoC project has it as subject
• 
• IC is scheduling meeting for this
• AS has concerns about design, ability to integrate with panel workflow and visual elegance

[edit] improvements to ZUI (finally nail that crap)

• shadows around containments, non-checkerboard
• see what can be done about performance
• meet up @ Akademy about this, Chani's missing brain dump email?
• also provide a context menu plugin for this

[edit] window slide in/out in KWin

• implement a desktop effect to replace plasma's window-sliding antics for hiding panels and windows to/from widgetsin panels

[edit] social desktop

• move engine into kdebase
• OCS lib should probably move to workspace/libs/ until we can trick, er, convince others into using it in apps and then into kdepimlibs or kdelibs
• OCS lib isn't ready for BC yet (dptrs, API review, etc), however
• SK: akonadi features pending, but planned
• AS: consider making it a part of the default desktop layout? encourage users to sign up
• MM: add opendesktop.org user's activities

[edit] plasmate

• need to schedule another meeting for this one

[edit] moving system tray from experimental to fd.o standard

• MM is working on specification (RM volunteered to assist)

   * http://gitorious.org/~notmart/xdg-specs/notmart-xdg-specs/commits/notificationitem
   * ItemWatcher and Host are todo's in the spec
   * needs proofing and review, then send to fd.o

• porting target: all apps in kde main modules that use ksystemtray: http://lxr.kde.org/ident?i=KSystemTrayIcon (not counting extragear)
• move it into libkdeui

[edit] krunner magic

• basics are in place, now lets take it to school!

[edit] developer documentation, website

• J. Janz is working on JavaScript tutorials
• really, really need to do something about plasma.k.o

[edit] kuiserver and plasma job display

• S. Reich has worked on turning it into a store-and-forward multiplexing system

   * multiple visualizations can be connected
   * if plasma crashes, jobs are still there when it comes back
   * provides own UI if plasma not available or turned off
   * apps won't block and plasma and vice versa (just on kuiserver ;)

• work ready for review and merge

[edit] autoupdating / checking of plasmoids

• Assigned to: AS / RS(?)
• JP: GHNS2 provides a way to autoupdate packages
• JP: in 4.4. dialog will have an update tab
• AS: request non-dialog, direct API access
• JP: still some decision work needed in GHNS community, will keep us informed

[edit] signing/trust

• Signing of plasmoids/engines/services needed
• Tie that level of trust into capabilities offered the plasmoid
• Needs more definition and research, see document in design/

[edit] PIM / Akonadi

• Lion Mail probably ready for "simpler" cases for 4.4, but pending:

   * features in akonadi (searching, sorting)
   * data actually being in akonadi (4.4 material for the PIM team)

• interaction with contacts (akonadi contacts support is in the data engine), contacts applet? What role does telepathy play here?

[edit] Desktop settings

• Assigned: Davide Bettio
• Icon view for wallpapers / themes
• Separate out plasma global settings from it
• Explore possible ways to remove some of the wallpaper plugin settings dupes?

[edit] Plasma D-Bus access

• IC is working on finalizing the design, will implement for 4.4

[edit] Multimedia components

• AD: finishing the basic api
• AD: now we have a media browser, a working playlist applet, some useful dataengines and a weird-not-working playback control applet
• first draft should be ready to go with 4.4