This month (October) in Red Hat KDE

I'm back with the regular update of what's going on in Red Hat and KDE. Let's have a look how we spent the last month.

Akonadi (dvratil)

• released 1.10.3
• worked on IDLE extension for Akonadi protocol 

KDE PIM (dvratil)

• small improvements in Akonadi Console 
• fixed Akonadi-based unit tests across KDE PIM 
• fixed email filtering when not using disconnected IMAP (KDE#295051) 
• fixed problem with duplicated names in Google Calendars (KDE#325778) 
• fixed error when IMAP server does not support METADATA or ANNOTATE (KDE#325778) 
• fixed 'Invalid Uidset' error when sending emails (KDE#323762, KDE#324807, KDE#314964) 
• fixed crash when authenticating new account in LibKGAPI (KDE#324128) 

KScreen (dvratil)

• implemented new KCM UI based on results of usability research 
• implemented support for profiles 

KDE Telepathy (dvratil)

• fixed KTp Approver incoming tube notification 
• fixed crash in LogViewer 

Display managers (mbriza)

• more work on the authenticator - split it to be a separate binary to comply with PAM/Audit stack in Fedora and to support set_loginuid module 
• finished basic XDMCP server/manager support - upstream merge request was opened 
• my theme was merged into Fedora as now being used as the default one 

kdelibs, kde-workspace (ltinkl)

• ported Solid/UPower backend to incompatible UPower 0.99.0 
• Powerdevil port in progress 

Plasma NM (jgrulich, ltinkl)

• make plasma-nm compilable without libmm-qt 
• ModemManager 1.0 support (in plasma-nm and libmm-qt) 
• new release - plasma-nm 0.9.3.1, libnm-qt 0.9.0.1 

• kdebz#325783 - plasma-nm doesn't install icon network-defaultroute, which is need by kde-nm-connection-editor.desktop - RESOLVED → FIXED 
• kdebz#319197 - plasma-nm: Make modemmanager support optional - RESOLVED → FIXED 
• kdebz#325495 - Plasma-nm branch mm1port causes a plasma-crash upon inserting a GSM USB stick - RESOLVED → FIXED 
• kdebz#326060 - applet does not refresh after disconnecting from a shared wifi connection - RESOLVESD → FIXED 
• kdebz#326164 - The icon doesn't correctly show the vpn status - RESOLVED → FIXED (and probably ~5 duplicates of this bug) 
• kdebz#319198 - plasma-nm applet: auto-resize popup height to show full connection details without scrolling - RESOLVED → FIXED 
• kdebz#325324 - Crash on upgrade from networkmanagement to plasma-nm - RESOLVED → WONTFIX 
• kdebz#325421 - Plasma-nm doesn't connect automatically on KDE (Kubuntu 13.10) startup - RESOLVED → WONTFIX 
• kdebz#326456 - Need scrollbar or expanding window - RESOLVED → FIXED 
• kdebz#326274 - Newly created shared wireless network cannot be seen if disconnected once - RESOLVED → FIXED 
• kdebz#326517 - connection editor should not be in menu -> FIXED 
• kdebz#326632 - "Always Ask" and "Store" option in "Edit Connection" dialog seems swapped -> FIXED 
• kdebz#326374 - Allow adding a Bridge without adding a connection to it - FIXED 

[1] Martin Bříza (mbriza), Jan Grulich (jgrulich), Than Ngo (than), Lukáš Tinkl (ltinkl), Dan Vrátil (dvratil)


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