September in Red Hat KDE

Here's a list of activities and bugs fixed the KDE team has been working on the past month.

Fedora

• updated KDE Frameworks 5 to 5.2.0 
• updated Plasma 5 Copr to 5.0.1 
• imported KF5 to F20 
• started working on smarter script for automated builds of KF5 in Copr 
• KDE Telepathy 0.9 (beta) 
• Clementine 1.2.3 (bz#1127940, bz#1098742, bz#1135725, bz#1139414) 

Red Hat

• rhbz#1055432 - KDM hangs at reboot or shutdown 
• CVE-2014-5033 polkit-qt: insecure calling of polkit 
• rhbz#1123491 -[HP HPS 6.6 Bug] grub causes exception and reset when booting without VGA 
• rhbz#1141907 -libsrtp needs patch for aarch64 and possibly endian detection for ppc64 
• rhbz#1077498 -/usr/bin/sapconf: line 473: [: ==: unary operator expected when invalid hostname is set 
• rhbz#1123920 - KVM not mentioned in manpage 
• rhbz#1136457 - xsession should be named kde-plasma.desktop and kde-plasma- safe.desktop

KDE

• Akademy (6. - 12.9.) - the annual KDE summit in Brno 
• KF5 porting in PIM 
• fixed KF5 port of KScreen 
• fix URL porting errors (file saving) in KSnapshot, ark and okular (P5) 
• overall desktop switch to Breeze theme fixes (kcminput, krdb, fi plugin - P5) 
• Solid2/Power API additions (KF5) 
• KAnalytics - KDE system "spyware" framework (backend work, lib, kded module) 
• fixed timezone parsing in tz dataengine (P5) 
• kdebz#338513 - NM applet significantly delays KDE logon 
• kdebz#333752 - plasma-nm applet constantly uses 2% cpu and generates 25 wakeup events/s 
• kdebz#339223 - Infinite loop due to KWallet usage 
• kdebz#338697 - No notifications after upgrade 
• kdebz#339065 - Constant cpu use while connected to wifi 

Brought to you by: Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) and Dan Vrátil (dvratil)

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July and August in Red Hat KDE

After summer vacations I'm back with reporting on exciting things happening in the KDE world at Red Hat. Everybody has been super busy with preparations for this year's meeting of KDE contributors conference -- Akademy -- which our team is co-organizing; nevertheless the number of topics tackled didn't decrease, quite the contrary.

Akademy 2014, Brno, Czech Republic

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Bullets below marked with either KF5 or P5 suggest we're are busy working on KDE Frameworks and Plasma 5 ;) Want to try out Plasma 5 on Fedora? Instructions in this Daniel Vrátil's blog post.

Fedora

• updated KDE Frameworks 5 packages to 5.1.0
• updated Plasma 5 COPR to 5.0.1
• kde-plasma-nm - update to 0.9.3.4
• kdevelop - 4.7.0

KDE

• finished GStreamer 1.0 port of phonon-gstreamer, fixed couple bugs there
• KF5: frameworkized Akonadi
• KF5: fix "Get hot new stuff" downloads, fix custom sound files in knotifications
• P5: improved lock screen and Plasma 5 Digital Clock applet
• P5: mix porting fixes
• P5: date/time/zone fixes (kcm, dataengine, clock applets)
• P5: i18n fixes across all modules
• P5: powermanagement fixes (dataengine, powerdevil)
• P5: ported and re-enabled solid-actions-kcm
• revived KIO GDrive, rewrote most of the code and almost finished it
• kdebz#1129909 - Dialog window for type password doesn't displays
• kdebz#1133233 - (not protected AND new) wireless connection are shown as protected
• kdebz#337956 - Unable to import PCF files
• kdebz#338124 - plasma-nm-0.9.3.4 fails to build (openvpn.h:46:22: error: 'QTextStream' has not been declared)
• kdebz#338146 - Percent sign mistakenly appended to connection IDs
• kdebz#337958 - NetworkManager does not stores group passwords in KWallet
• kdebz#338156 - plasma-nm does not save settings anymore
• kdebz#338513 - NM applet significantly delays KDE logon

Misc

• lots of vacation for everyone
• dvratil attended KDE Randa Meetings 2014 (10.8. - 15.8.)
• Akademy planning, attending

Brought to you by: Martin Bříza (mbriza), Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) and Dan Vrátil (dvratil)

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Last month (May) in Red Hat KDE

Here's a list of activities and bugs fixed the KDE team has been working on the past month.

KDE PIM (dvratil)

Akonadi

• wrote infrastructure for unit-testing Akonadi handlers and unit-tests for some handlers 
• implemented direct payload streaming (performance optimization) 
• improved PostgreSQL support 
• optimized database on Btrfs 

KScreen (dvratil)

• finished the new UI for KScreen KCM and merged to master 

Network Management (jgrulich, ltinkl)

* plasma-nm - some improvements in KF5/PlasmaNext version

* FIXED or CLOSED:

• #335419 - Unnecessarily big spacing when a network asks for the password 
• #334249 - Network Management Settings does not resize the widgets correctly 
• #334394 - Icon doesn't change when the theme changes 
• #334980 - No scrollbar is shown even though the networks don't fit in the applet 
• #334668 - the networking applet does not store passwords and does not start the connection process 
• #334786 - After click on apply, the password info of my new connection is lost. Every time that field returns to the blank status 
• #335388 - Module 'org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement' does not contain a module identifier directive - it cannot be protected from external registrations. 
• #335325 - In plasma next session I cannot connect to my wireless access points, they are listed but connect doesn't do anything
• #334481 - cant enable wifi
• #330127 - Better support for SSID with more AP 
• #327070 - After network disconnection network management shows connected but only shows connect selection 

Display Management (mbriza)

• QAuth released in version 0.1.1 
• New release containing various bugfixes 
• Another release underway with more fixes 
• Started working on starting X server in the user session 

• SDDM 
• Became the upstream maintainer - got commit access 
• Continued development against QAuth 
• Rewritten the configuration parser, opened a pull request 
• Issue and pull request resolving - the project is very alive nowadays 

Fedora

• rhbz#1049135 - Connections not displayed correctly 
• rhbz#1072109 - Signal strength being not consistently reported for two APs with same SSID, different BSSID 
• rhbz#1018395 - Network Management doesn't show connection traffix 
• rhbz#1061819 - KDE NM applet doesn't show to what wireless network is connected 

•  updated KDE Frameworks COPR to 4.99.0 http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/kde-frameworks/
• packaged many unstable KDE Frameworks http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/kde-frameworks-unstable/
• packaged Plasma Next and various KDE 5 applications http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/plasma-next/
• built a live ISO with Plasma Next preview http://www.progdan.cz/2014/05/kde-frameworks-5-beta-and-plasma-next-preview-on-fedora/
• submitted all KDE Frameworks Tier 1 packages for Fedora review and pushed them to rawhide (some still pending) (RHBZ#1086148) 
• Opened review request for QAuth: #1101235 
• Copr repository containing QAuth and SDDM compiled against it - with working PAM stack: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mbriza/sddm/

Brought to you by: Martin Bříza (mbriza), Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) and Dan Vrátil (dvratil)

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Last month (April) in Red Hat KDE

Another part in the series "what's happening in the KDE world in Red Hat", enjoy :)

Network Management (jgrulich, ltinkl)

• plasma-nm - porting to KF5 and Plasma Next
• started working on a QML version of the connection editor
• libn[nm]-qt - made lib[nm]-qt as KDE frameworks, but still a few bits are missing

FIXED or CLOSED:

• #333418 - No Icon available for android bluetooth network
• #331962 - Plasma-nm has "mobile broadband" check-box, while there is no such in system.
• #332590 - Systray icon is not always updated correctly
• #332873 - When roaming to a new AP the channel number in the details display does not update
• #333026 - Clicking the systray icon doesn't close the popup
• #332617 - frameworks branch installs same icon as plasma-framework
• #332726 - icons overlapping on high res display
• #331771 - IPv4 and gateway address details are not displayed on plasma-nm
• #333569 - OpenVPN connection is not started when in use with consolekit
• #332479 - openconnect VPN login window doesn't store the authentication info
• #325945 - kdeplasma-applets-plasma-nm loses 'active connections

KDE PIM (dvratil)

• improved performance of our QSQLITE driver fork
• implemented support for item merging

Display management (mbriza)

QAuth released in version 0.1.0

• Both PAM and Shadow backends are tested and working 
• Able to start a session and authenticate any user, handles regular login 
• QML bindings are complete 
• Example applications are complete

SDDM

•  Wrote a branch against QAuth (above) 
•  Opened a pull request for inclusion of the QAuth changes. The upstream is now alive again now. 

RHEL

• RHBZ#1073939 - Akonadi problem when home-dir is in AFS
• RHBZ#1025187 - Add Man-Page to the package
• RHBZ#1024356 - sapconf can create odd /etc/hosts
• RHBZ#1040617 - sapconf can't verify virtual guest is VMware guest
• RHBZ#1083651 - /etc/hosts becomes unreadable for non-root users after sapconf has been run
• RHBZ#1051017 - sapconf should not write to /etc/security/limits.conf directly.

Fedora (all)

• started submitting KDE Frameworks 5 packages for review (tracking bug: RHBZ#1086148)
• worked on our fork of dgroc script for nightly builds in Copr to suit our needs with (semi-)nightly builds of KF5/Plasma.Next
• updated KF 5/Plasma.Next packages
• packaged kde-plasma-milou (applet for searching)

Other

• working on Plasma Next and KDE Frameworks 5 in Fedora (dvratil, jgrulich)
• working on Fedora Plasma First Boot (QML2/Plasma2 version) (dvratil, ltinkl)
• attended Akademy team meeting (all)
• Arranging accomodation for Akademy (mbriza)
• Held a talk at Open House, spend the whole day in the Tower (mbriza)

Brought to you by: Martin Bříza (mbriza), Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) and Dan Vrátil (dvratil)

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Last month (March) in Red Hat KDE

Another part in the series "what's happening in the KDE world in Red Hat", enjoy :)

Network Management (jgrulich, ltinkl)

• plasma-nm - porting to KF5 and Plasma Next
• libn[nm]-qt - porting to Qt5
• working on Plasma Next and KDE Frameworks 5 in Fedora
• working on Fedora Plasma First Boot - added network page

FIXED or CLOSED:

• #331962 - Plasma-nm "connect/disconnect" buttons have same text
• #332590 - Systray icon is not always updated correctly
• #332188 - wrong notification for (wireless) network connection activated at login
• #331994 - Editor still not localized
• #1072109 - Signal strength being not consistently reported for two APs with same SSID, different BSSID
• #1073792 - Needs to be rebuild against new openconnect
• #1071317 - Erroneous "last used" report
• #1073656 - "Edit Connection" window doesn't memorize VPN password when settings change (Store option is selected) [KDE]
• #1074244 - libplasmanetworkmanagementplugins.so: undefined symbol: _ZN14NetworkManager12connectivityEv

KDE PIM (dvratil)

• started working on Akonadi Framework (porting kdepimlibs/akonadi to Frameworks)
• spent most of the time with bugfixes and optimizations in Akonadi for the 1.12 release
• released Akonadi 1.12
• attended KDE PIM Sprint in Barcelona (will publish a blog post later this week)

Display management (mbriza)

• Continued development of the new Qt authentication library
• The C++ API is basically complete
• QML bindings are complete
• Example applications are complete
• Currently working on polishing the backends: writing one for /etc/shadow and improving handling of the Fedora PAM prompts.
• Developing a SDDM branch against QAuth (above)

RHEL

FIXED:

• #1070813 - missing -fstack-protector-strong
• #997526  - Add package "sapconf" to the "RHEL for SAP Business Applications" SKU/RHN channel
• #1067111 - Adding second panel on second monitor places panel on top
• #1075521 - kde-plasma-networkmanagement-openswan has unresolved deps to NetworkManager openswan

CLOSED:

•  #1049325 - plasma-desktop consumes 100% of CPU
•  #1072485 - [abrt] kdelibs: KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(): kdeinit4 killed by SIGSEGV

OTHER:

• #1058857 - Red Hat logo in Plasma panel is poorly resized
• #1064002 - ksysguard shows no network traffic for interfaces with long names
• #857002 -  Reproducible segfault with Umbrello

Fedora (all)

• COPR builds with development version of kde-plasma-nm
• COPR builds with KF5 Alpha 2
• KDE Telepathy 0.8.0
• some hacking on Plasma 2 packages, so that we can actually log into Plasma 2 session
• forked the dgroc script for nightly builds in COPR so that we could use it for our KF5/Plasma 2 repository (not finished yet)
• started working on Fedora Plasma First Login wizard
• Another kde-connect update.
• Debugging polkit in Plasma 2 (was fixed by fixing the login).
• Fedora Plasma efforts. 

Brought to you by: Martin Bříza (mbriza), Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) and Dan Vrátil (dvratil)

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Last month (February) in Red Hat KDE

Another part in the series "what's happening in the KDE world in Red Hat", enjoy :)

Network management (jgrulich, ltinkl)

• plasma-nm - we finally released a new version, with a lot of bugfixes, but mainly with a new design 
• otherwise mainly working on a new model 
• http://grulja.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/plasma-nm-is-finally-out/
• http://grulja.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/final-shape-of-plasma-nm/
• libnm-qt - minor fixes, new release 0.9.8.1 
• libmm-qt - new release 1.0.1, master heading towards MM 1.2 compliance 

• kdebz#330454 - Upload / Download graph uses wrong color labels 
• kdebz#331138 - bigger font size settings are not handled properly by the applet layout 
• kdebz#331423 - No icon for wifi + openconnect vpn in plasma-nm 

KDE PIM (dvratil)

• finished server-search and Baloo search integration 
• implemented support for Tags 
• fixed problems with database deadlocks 

Display managers (mbriza)

• #1063856 - KDM won't display users list. 
• Investigated, reassigned to the proper component 
• #1063851 - kdm won't accept keyboard input 
• #1055432 - KDM hangs at reboot or shutdown. 
• Still investigating too, a race condition somewhere, attempts at fixing failed so far 

Continued development of the new Qt authentication library

• The C++ API is slowly crystallizing to its final form 
• Worked on exporting it to QML 
• Writing a basic QML authentication app to test everything 

Developed a SDDM branch against QAuth (above)

Fedora

• took over libaccounts-glib and libaccounts-qt packages from jreznik and updated to latest upstream (dvratil) 
• packaged sign-on (dvratil) 
• #879328 - kdbg can't open any executable (ltinkl) 
• #1068956 - KShutdown 3.2 released; fixes regressions (jgrulich) 
• #1063378 - kde-plasma-nm base package should not require ModemManager (jgrulich) 

RHEL

• kgpg and kwin bugfixes 
• #1070140 - kdm removal 
• #1066078 - unable to lock Gnome when using KDM instead of GDM 
• #1055717 - acpid fails to build on RHEL7 for non-x86 arch 
• #1050919 - incorrect perl-expressions matching unicode symbols 
• #1050916 - malformed output when coloring is on and grep -P has unicode input 
• #1061697 - [RFE] Add libreswan integration to kde-plasma-networkmanagement 
• #1005216 - ortp: hard-coded user name and password 
• #1005261 - ortp: uses /tmp for UNIX domain socket 
• #1005218 - ortp: missing length check in stunEncodeMessage() 
• #1005219 - ortp: missing sign and overflow checks in buffer management functions 
• #1061819 - KDE NM applet doesn't show to what wireless network is connected 
• #1067111 - Adding second panel on second monitor places panel on top 

Misc

• attended FOSDEM 
• talked to MariaDB people about optimizing configuration for Akonadi 
• Akademy planning meeting with the rest of the team 
• Arranging accomodation for Akademy 
• devconf.cz

Brought to you by: Martin Bříza (mbriza), Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl) and Dan Vrátil (dvratil)

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Last month (January) in Red Hat KDE

Straight back from the tremendous devconf.cz, here's the regular update of what's going on in Red Hat and KDE. Let's have a look how we spent the last month.

Network management (plasma-nm | libnm-qt | libmm-qt)
: jgrulich, ltinkl

plasma-nm | libnm-qt | libmm-qt

• plasma-nm - finished programming part of redesign, waiting for designers to step up 
• http://grulja.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/plasma-nm-usabilitydesign-improvements/
• http://user-prompt.com/knetworkmanager-approaching-the-finishing-line/
• started working on a new model, which will be shared between the applet and the editor 
• started reworking the editor, ported to the new model 
• implemented Team settings 
• Connectivity checking 

• libnm-qt 
• added new properties/methods from NM 0.9.9.0 

• libmm-qt 
• implemented (new) Oma MM interface 

* FIXED:
#329315 - IPv6 privacy extensions should be enabled per default for new connections
#329355 - Bridge connection is active although the plasmoid icons represent it as inactive
#329342 - Network manager forgets the 802.1x settings as soon as the dialog box is closed
#329288 - Crash involving the authorization prompt
#329545 - Applet icon does not scale horizontally when embedded in a panel
#329630 - Password field always empty for the openvpn connection
#329827 - Make notifications disappear after some time

* CLOSED:
#328985 - A shared wifi network cannot be restarted after being turned off
#329580 - VPN connection asks for too many passwords
#329871 - The VPN (vpnc) connection editor dialog has no Domain field

KDE PIM
: dvratil

• finished rewrite of Akonadi search functionality and Baloo support 
• removed MySQL Embedded support from Akonadi 
• fixed BKO #330010 - Broken .desktop files parser in Akonadi 
• fixed BKO #330215 - Crash on Akonadi shutdown when using PostgreSQL 
• fixed BKO #324932 - Can't rename folders on some IMAP servers 

KScreen
: dvratil

• created patch for RHBZ#1036568 - RHEL6 - KWin does not move windows from a disconnected screen (backported upstream patches) 
• fixed RHBZ#1056251 - KScreen allows to active more displays than supported by GPU (upstreamed) 

Fedora updates

• kde-plasma-nm 
• Rekonq 2.4.2 
• KDE Telepathy 0.7.1 
• packaged KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2 in a Copr repo: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/kde-frameworks
• GammaRay 2.0.0 
• wrote an article about KDE Connect for fedora.cz.