Schedules/KDE4/4.0 Release Beta Goals - Revision history

Toma: Delete it all.

2008-01-04T10:28:57Z

Delete it all.

Boemann: /* Oxygen style */

2007-12-25T16:34:58Z

‎Oxygen style

Toma: Reverted edits by Tfry (Talk); changed back to last version by Tomalbers

2007-12-21T10:29:56Z

Reverted edits by Tfry (Talk); changed back to last version by Tomalbers

Tfry: kdesu has unconfirmed showstoppers

2007-12-20T11:48:03Z

kdesu has unconfirmed showstoppers

Tomalbers: /* Dolphin */

2007-12-16T20:47:43Z

‎Dolphin

Mwoehlke: /* Color configuration */

2007-12-13T03:09:32Z

‎Color configuration

Mwoehlke: Color configuration - is now releasable

2007-12-07T19:42:20Z

Color configuration - is now releasable

Tomalbers: /* Dolphin */

2007-12-07T17:06:30Z

‎Dolphin

Tomalbers: /* Dolphin */ back to being a showstopper

2007-12-07T16:38:38Z

‎Dolphin: back to being a showstopper

Ggarand: /* Konqueror */

2007-12-04T11:16:29Z

‎Konqueror

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-This page will list all the release goals for the beta cycle of KDE4. It will contain not only the goals, but also the current state and what YOU can do to help out.
+This page listed all the release goals for the beta cycle of KDE4. Now that KDE4 is no longer in beta stage, the content of this page has been removed.
-−
-You can not add new items to this list. Only maintainers should edit their own section. If you wish to add new items, send a mail to [mailto:release-team@kde.org release-team@kde.org]
-−
-=== Plasma ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: red">showstopper</span>
-*''contact:'' [mailto:aseigo@kde.org Aaron J. Seigo]
-*''goal:'' A basic panel is there; current work is to flesh it out into a more capable panel system. System tray and taskbar both need work as does a desktop containment with legacy support for the Desktop folder.
-*''howto help:'' help is always welcome; there are a number of people contributing to plasma already but more help can make things go faster. If you want to help, join the irc channel #plasma or mail to [mailto:panel-devel@kde.org panel-devel@kde.org]
-*''expected time of arrival:'' unknown, but close
-−
-=== Color configuration ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: red">color list broken</span>
-*''contact:'' [[User:mwoehlke| Matthew Woehlke]]
-*''goals:''
-** fix size bug in color list (QTableView bug?) <span style="color: red">priority</span>
-** sort schemes in list <span style="color: green">cosmetic</span>
-** don't save options in schemes <span style="color: green">cosmetic</span>
-** confirmation when discarding changes to working scheme, [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152883 bug 152883] <span style="color: green">releasable</span>
-*''howto help:'' Polish and Usability review welcome.
-−
-=== Oxygen style ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: red">showstopper</span>
-*''contact:'' [[User:mwoehlke| Matthew Woehlke]], [mailto:cbr@boemann.dkCasper Boemann], #oxygen
-*''goal:'' no obvious glitches, fix all bugs on [[Projects/Oxygen/StyleWinDec]]
-*''howto help:'' get the KHTML patch applied to trunk, for other things ask on #oxygen
-*''expected time of arrival:'' unknown
-−
-=== Konqueror ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: red">showstopper</span>
-*''contact:'' [mailto:faure@kde.org David Faure]
-*''goal:'' Konqueror must be able to browse the web and to be used as a file manager again, I'm mostly aiming for "no regressions compared to KDE3"
-*''howto help:''
-**Help is most welcome. [mailto:kfm-devel@kde.org kfm-devel@kde.org] is the place for discussion of both aspects of konqueror development. Web browsing seems in better shape than filemanagement right now, so small tasks are fixing regressions in the webbrowsing-related code in konqueror and its dependencies. For instance there is finally a patch now about fixing the non-working Return key in the location bar URL; I'm sure there's more like that.
-**Bigger tasks include:
-***defining a future for the sidebar code (*no showstopper if this is the last item on the list*) -- volunteer(s) needed!
-***finishing the integration of the dolphin part for file management.
-***open bugs are on [http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=konqueror&version=4.0&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=grave&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=crash&cmdtype=doit| this Bugzilla page]
-*''expected time of arrival:'' november (if we leave out the sidebar changes), else december.
-−
-=== Dolphin ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: green">no showstopper</span>
-*''contact:'' [mailto:peter.penz@gmx.at Peter Penz]
-*''goal:'' I think Dolphin is in a quite acceptable state now. David Faure and Rafael Fernández López also investigate a lot of time in Dolphin related things so I'm optimistic that Dolphin should be in a good shape for KDE 4.0.
-*''howto help:''
-**I'm concerned a little bit whether the Dolphin KPart is matured enough for getting Konqueror in shape.
-***I'm not sure about the state of Nepomuk. Currently the performance is too  slow for sorting items by tags or rating. It would be possible to use an  internal cache in Dolphin for this, but this would only reduce the time from  O(n*log(n)) to O(n) and the problem is n: reading e. g. 30 items takes several seconds... Maybe Sebastian Trüg could need some support. In the worst case I'd suggest to remove the "sort by tags" and "sort by rating" feature in Dolphin for KDE 4.0.
-*''expected time of arrival:'' There also is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152904 which is not dolphin related, but it affects this app.
-−
-=== Kate ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: orange">some missing features & bugs, but usable</span>
-*''contact:'' [mailto:kwrite-devel@kde.org Kate Team]
-*''goal:'' The KDE 4 version of Kate should at least inlude the known KDE 3 features with additions. We have some new stuff around already but some old is lacking correct porting (beside new introduced bugs). There is a massive need for bugfixing and help getting old stuff back to work, like printing.
-*''howto help:''
-** <s>fix printing</s> Fixed by Anders, 2007-10-20
-** <s>fix shortcut settings</s> Fixed by mstocker
-** <s>rendering bugfixes</s> seems to be ok (fixed everything I know), by mstocker
-** config saving bugfixes
-** testing
-*''expected time of arrival:'' unknown, but very close
-−
-=== Printing ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: green">no showstopper any more</span>
-*''contact:'' [mailto:huntedhacker@tiscali.co.uk Alex Merry] (randomguy3)
-*''goal:'' Printing support working in all applications that can currently print, with print preview and customisable dialogs; no applications depending on libkdeprint, except for the printing kcm
-*help needed: API is in place: KPrintPreview in kutils and KdePrint::createPrintDialog() in kdeui.  Okular has support for printing PS files directly, although this will only work on *NIX platforms (it requires lpr or cups).  Basically, all that is left is test, test, test.
-*''howto help:'' heavy testing required, send reports of problems to [mailto:kde-print-devel@kde.org kde-print-devel@kde.org] mailing list, preferably with a patch, or report problems on [http://bugs.kde.org Bugzilla].
-*''expected time of arrival:'' All was done by 26th Nov.
-−
-=== Sound ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: green">ready</span>
-*''contact:'' [mailto:kretz@kde.org Matthias Kretz]
-*''goal:''
-*# no showstopper: do some more automatic tests that all sound devices work as expected
-*''howto help:'' Mailinglists: [mailto:phonon-backends@kde.org phonon-backends@kde.org] or [mailto:kde-multimedia@kde.org kde-multimedia@kde.org], IRC: #phonon ping Vir
-**Local audio playback is working quite OK, but there are some issues that are still open:
-*** https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284171 (should be fixed with libc 2.7)
-*** Even though defaults.pcm.ipc_gid is set to audio and defaults.pcm.ipc_perm is set to 0660, dmix does not work for more than one user at the same time (both users are in the audio group). A workaround is to set ipc_perm to 0666, but a real fix would be nicer.
-*** xine-lib behaves bad wrt. memory allocations. run e.g. mediaobjecttest in valgrind --tool=massif (this will hopefully get fixed with libxine 1.2)
-−
-=== Co-installability ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: orange">A state where packagers can work around the rest. </span>
-*''contact:'' k-c-d
-*''goal:'' Distros should be able to coinstall packages in the same prefix in a way that makes it possible to use kde3 apps on a kde4 desktop or to use kde4 apps on a kde3 desktop.
-*''how to help''
-** fix kinfocenter && khelpcenter in some magic way
-*''details:''
-** kde3libs, kde4libs, kdepimlibs, kde4base(apps, runtime, workspace) should be coinstallable  => kde3 apps in a kde4 desktop
-** <b>AND</b>
-** kde3libs, kde3base, kde4libs, kdepimlibs, kde4base-runtime should be coinstallable => kde4 apps in a kde3 desktop
-** And only those with the -devel stuff stripped out.
-*''list of conflicting files:'' [[Projects/KDE3_KDE4_coinstallability| KDE3/KDE4 coinstallability]]
-*''NOTE''
-** This does not cover apps like konsole, konqueror, kmail, ... There can of course only be one of each application installed in same prefix. It is only about the runtime parts of the other desktop.
-*''expected time of arrival:'' Very soon

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 === Oxygen style ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: orange">releaseable if really needed</span>
+*''current state:'' <span style="color: red">showstopper</span>
 *''contact:'' [[User:mwoehlke| Matthew Woehlke]], [mailto:cbr@boemann.dkCasper Boemann], #oxygen
 *''goal:'' no obvious glitches, fix all bugs on [[Projects/Oxygen/StyleWinDec]]
-*''howto help:'' ask on #oxygen
+*''howto help:'' get the KHTML patch applied to trunk, for other things ask on #oxygen
 *''expected time of arrival:'' unknown

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 ** confirmation when discarding changes to working scheme, [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152883 bug 152883] <span style="color: green">releasable</span>
 *''howto help:'' Polish and Usability review welcome.
 === Oxygen style ===

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 ** confirmation when discarding changes to working scheme, [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152883 bug 152883] <span style="color: green">releasable</span>
 *''howto help:'' Polish and Usability review welcome.
 === Oxygen style ===

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 === Dolphin ===
-*''current state:'' <span style="color: red">some showstoppers</span>
+*''current state:'' <span style="color: green">no showstopper</span>
 *''contact:'' [mailto:peter.penz@gmx.at Peter Penz]
 *''goal:'' I think Dolphin is in a quite acceptable state now. David Faure and Rafael Fernández López also investigate a lot of time in Dolphin related things so I'm optimistic that Dolphin should be in a good shape for KDE 4.0.
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 **I'm concerned a little bit whether the Dolphin KPart is matured enough for getting Konqueror in shape.
 ***I'm not sure about the state of Nepomuk. Currently the performance is too  slow for sorting items by tags or rating. It would be possible to use an  internal cache in Dolphin for this, but this would only reduce the time from  O(n*log(n)) to O(n) and the problem is n: reading e. g. 30 items takes several seconds... Maybe Sebastian Trüg could need some support. In the worst case I'd suggest to remove the "sort by tags" and "sort by rating" feature in Dolphin for KDE 4.0.
-*''expected time of arrival:'' Unknown,  dfaure is working on http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152902 and there also is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152904 which is not dolphin related, but it affects this app.
+*''expected time of arrival:'' There also is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152904 which is not dolphin related, but it affects this app.
 === Kate ===