15:05:50 #startmeeting kde-sig -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2011-04-26 15:05:50 Meeting started Tue Apr 26 15:05:50 2011 UTC. The chair is rdieter_work. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:05:50 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 15:05:54 #meetingname kde-sig 15:05:54 The meeting name has been set to 'kde-sig' 15:05:59 #topic roll call 15:06:03 hi, who's present today? 15:06:08 Present. 15:06:47 than : ping 15:07:34 present 15:07:38 * ltinkl present 15:07:54 looks like jreznik may be busy/out today 15:08:09 #chair Kevin_Kofler than ltinkl 15:08:09 Current chairs: Kevin_Kofler ltinkl rdieter_work than 15:08:16 #info rdieter Kevin_Kofler than ltinkl present 15:08:26 #topic marble-1.1 15:08:37 old business, from last week's agenda, Kevin_Kofler, give a status report? 15:08:43 on marble 15:09:00 So I build kdeedu-4.6.2-2.fc1[456] packages with Marble 1.1.0 included. 15:09:00 http://dot.kde.org/2011/04/18/marble-11-released 15:09:08 It's working fine for me on F14. 15:09:18 The F15 version is now stable in F15. 15:09:23 me too (mostly) on f15, modulo one initial crash using plasma-desktop-marble 15:09:40 Upstream claims it's binary-compatible, but we have that issue rdieter is reporting. 15:09:40 digikam ok 15:10:18 Another thing: Does "Download new maps" work for anyone in Marble? I hadn't had it work with 1.0 and it's still not working with 1.1. 15:10:35 It only says that it's loading data and spins forever, nothing shows up. 15:11:04 * rdieter_work tries, says "Loading data..." (spinner) 15:11:17 (Is that because no data is available? Or is the server not responding? It's just a standard KHNS3 dialog…) 15:11:20 * than did not see marble 1.1 build for f15 15:11:30 than: kdeedu-4.6.2-2.fc15 15:12:16 * jreznik_n900 is here, sorry late from mobilr 15:12:17 looks like it doesn't work alright, I'd be tempted to suspect the ghns server first 15:12:27 #info jreznik_n900 present too 15:12:32 #chair jreznik_n900 15:12:32 Current chairs: Kevin_Kofler jreznik_n900 ltinkl rdieter_work than 15:12:37 Yeah, I don't think it's our package's fault. 15:12:57 I wonder what's up with that Plasma crash. 15:14:57 I'll make sure to have -debuginfo handy in case I see anything else bad happen 15:15:56 anyway, so far so good, a qualified success 15:16:48 I guess we can move on then 15:17:06 #topic PackageKit-related dependencies, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694169 15:17:16 .bug 694169 15:17:18 rdieter_work: Bug 694169 phonon dependencies prevent running a reasonable Fedora without PackageKit - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694169 15:17:38 mostly about whether to hard-code PackageKit-plugin-gstreamer into phonon-backend-gstreamer or not 15:17:56 we discussed it before 15:18:16 at the time, one reason to hard-code it was to avoid a phonon crasher when the plugin was not present 15:18:24 that has since been fixed 15:18:40 so, does that change anyone's minds? 15:18:57 I still think the dependency should stay, for upgrade path reasons. 15:19:04 * rdieter_work is tempted 15:19:07 * thomasj wonders why comps isn't a solution. Comps can be edited for older versions than F15 as well. Anyone who has the dep installed won't get hurt, anybody else fresh installing the same. 15:19:43 Anaconda will use the F14 GA comps, not the latest comps-f14 in git. 15:19:59 Plus, people don't necessarily update every day. 15:20:00 comps is a solution, but for f14 would be less than ideal 15:20:00 That's bad. 15:20:22 And finally, people are also upgrading from F13, where we don't have the new Phonon. 15:20:27 f14/comps only gets used when updates repo is enabled 15:20:44 But still i don't see the problem re upgrade path. Probably i'm blind. 15:20:47 dep is ok for me 15:21:01 but we should be consistent - anywhere - we support freedom elsewhere or nowhere 15:21:10 thomasj: upgraders will miss out on the new feature, that new installs would enjoy 15:21:24 thomasj: People will not get PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin installed if there's no dep on it. 15:21:46 PackageKit is only an indirect dep, PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin is what we need the dep for. 15:21:48 otoh, upgraders didn't have the feature before, so it's not like it's a regression ... 15:21:52 Ok, got it, pardon the interruption. 15:22:36 but it is a new f15 feature, technically not a regression in fact 15:23:12 given all that, I do have a slight preference for keeping things flexible and removing the hard dep. seems I may be the only one here that thinks so though 15:24:10 than: ? 15:24:39 ltinkl: too, any opinion? 15:24:50 no strong opinion 15:25:28 this is another good candidate if we had soft dependencies 15:25:48 +1, we really need soft deps… :-( 15:26:25 Kevin_Kofler, yeap 15:26:33 no strong opinion 15:26:59 so, by my count so far, we have 2 in favor of status-quo/hard-dep, 1 for soft/comps, and 1 undecided 15:27:01 it is nice to be flexible but we have to support one default 15:27:06 Also of note is that GNOME currently also drags in PackageKit in F15. 15:27:18 But that might get changed. 15:27:32 Kevin_Kofler: true, but I also don't think that should necessarily affect our decision making 15:27:42 (gnome-settings-daemon → … → PackageKit) 15:28:34 seems like we'll stick with what we have then, for better or worse. 15:28:55 any final comments before we move on to open discussion? 15:30:44 #info kde-sig affirms to keep pk-plugin-gstreamer dependency in phonon-backend-gstreamer 15:30:50 #topic open discussion 15:30:54 anything else for today? 15:31:19 * jreznik_n900 does nt use pkgkit but it is still present in system, I dont care 15:31:59 So one FYI is that my GSoC proposal got accepted, so unless something really bad happens, I'll be working on Plasma dependency extraction and PackageKit integration during the summer. 15:32:39 yay, I guess that ties in with our previous discussion, we may end up dragging in pk anyway. :) 15:33:01 :-p 15:33:06 though ideally, it'll be something that'll get used if present, else not, but we'll see how the implementation goes 15:33:18 We'll see. 15:34:09 Another FYI: I sent a mail to NetworkManager-owner and kde-plasma-networkmanagement-owner to discuss the issue of the compat API only being coded to the exact featureset of last month's kde-plasma-nm snapshot. 15:34:24 #info Kevin_Kofler gsoc proposal on plasma/packagekit integration was accepted 15:34:49 New snapshots have support for system connections and Bluetooth tethering (and ad-hoc connections / bridging got fixed, I don't know whether that works in the compat API either), and IPv6 support is coming soon. 15:35:04 dcbw may not want to hear all that. :) 15:35:28 I'm not sure about IPv6, but I know system connections and Bluetooth tethering are missing from the compat API. :-( 15:35:49 depends on how fast the race to nm09 native plasma-nm comes along 15:36:03 Yeah, that'd really be the optimal solution. 15:36:28 But so far I can't see much going on in the nm09 branch of kde-plasma-networkmanagement, except for merges from master (i.e. from the 0.8 codebase). 15:36:40 or whatever we end up using (ltinkl's proof of concept nm09 ui) 15:37:24 Maybe I can spare some time to work on that stuff too, but I'm always trying to do too many things… 15:37:33 well the nm09 branch is not something we want to ship atm, not before the "big rewrite" 15:37:58 ltinkl: Well, I'd like the nm09 branch to get made working and then ship that, at least for F15 updates. 15:37:59 Kevin_Kofler: yeah, on the one hand, < nm-0.9 support is really a dead-end , but is where most upstream work is going, for better or worse 15:38:05 Major changes are not welcome in F15. 15:38:11 Kevin_Kofler: that would be nice 15:38:22 Kevin_Kofler: but be prepared the code is a mess :) 15:38:38 The main issue is that I'm not familiar with NM or kde-plasma-nm code at all. 15:38:51 ideally, the nm09 branch should not be running against the compat layer 15:38:55 So I'd waste quite some time getting familiar with the mess before even getting started doing anything. :-( 15:39:27 The compat layer needs to go away. 15:39:31 anyone have contact with jklimes, are they still working on it? 15:40:30 I'd previously assumed yes, but the lack of news/updates or activity in nm09 branch worries me 15:40:42 I think he stopped working on it after dbcw promised to take care of the compat issues 15:40:51 rdieter_work: +1, same here… 15:40:59 The problem is, the compat solution is only temporary. 15:41:01 yikes 15:41:18 We need this sorted out for F16 at the very least. 15:41:19 which reminds me, we should nag dbcw to at least fix the VPN connections in the compat interfaces 15:41:52 I'll try to talk to him once he comes online 15:41:53 ltinkl: file bugs (if not already), and I'll work to get them visibility 15:42:08 rdieter_work: ok 15:42:10 talking is good too, but bz is a good way to track it 15:45:02 * rdieter_work will close meeting in 2 minutes if there's nothing else 15:45:44 dual monitor settings lost on logout? Bug 699024? 15:45:59 .bug 699024 15:46:01 Kevin_Kofler: Bug 699024 Krandrtray does not save position of second display - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699024 15:46:29 any core SIG member with dual monitor to reproduce? 15:49:01 not i 15:49:51 no dual setup... 15:49:59 looks like the bug is less about setting not being saved, but rather those settings not being properly translated into the appropriate/correct xrandr calls 15:50:14 but the effect is the same 15:50:24 yes 15:53:32 What's the NTH tracker again? F15-accepted? 15:53:50 (IIRC they're using "accepted" even for stuff which is not accepted yet. ;-) ) 15:54:01 I think only qa folks are supposed to set that, after it being nominated for blocker 15:54:20 but I could be wrong about that 15:54:47 adamw: What's the correct procedure for nominating something as NTH? 15:55:06 wrt the dual monitor settings, we'll need someone with an intersection of having the hardware, and the ability/interest to look into fixing it. seems we're currently stuck on the empty set 15:55:17 Kevin_Kofler: yo 15:55:25 Kevin_Kofler: mark it as blocking F15-accepted (for final NTH) 15:55:35 OK. 15:55:42 beta NTH is F15Beta-accepted , Alpha is F15Alpha-accepted , for F16 s/15/16/ , I guess you get the picture :) 15:56:00 and yeah, the name is kinda silly, maybe we should just change it to NTH> 15:57:21 adamw: thanks 15:57:35 alrighty, we're about out of time, so I'll close up shop, thanks everyone! 15:57:37 #endmeeting