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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