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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