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úterý 2. září 2014

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

Red Hat, Akademy 2014 Silver sponsor

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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You can find us on #fedora-kde channel on Freenode IRC

sobota 3. května 2014

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)

You can find us on #fedora-kde channel on Freenode IRC

sobota 5. dubna 2014

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.

You can find us on #fedora-kde channel on Freenode IRC

středa 11. září 2013

First Plasma NM release

It is with great pleasure we're announcing today the first release of our project - Plasma NM 0.9.3.0. As you've probably heard before, it's a brand new Plasma applet written QML/C++ to manage your network connections. This applet is meant as a drop-in replacement for the older widget-based networkmanagement applet.

For an overview of what motivated us to basically start from scratch on this applet as well as occasional progress statuses, please see Jan's blog.

A picture, even better a video, is worth a thousand words they say, so here it is :)

The initial email has been sent a few moments ago to the @kde-packager mailing list, so you can expect Plasma NM to land in your favorite distro's update channels anytime soon. Fedora^[1], among others (Kubuntu, openSUSE), already contains a preview snapshot of the applet, with the update to the final version in the works.

Alternatively, you can grab those 3 tarballs and compile by yourself:

[1] $ yum install kde-plasma-nm