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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