Re: Post-MegaRelease projects (Font Management)
Hi, For the most part for lack of spare time midterm I’ll do some bits here and there as well as Qt Wayland stuff. However, one thing I am currently reworking is the Font Management (kfontinst) KCM. It’s entirely based around Xft and there is no way we could really salvage this into a Wayland world. It only works under Wayland right now because I made it open its own X connection to XWayland… Therefore, I am working on plasma-fontmanagement (move it into its own selfcontained repo, too) to give it a fresh new QML UI taking inspiration from various font management apps and websites. I also want to be able to expose some of the more modern font features (e.g. variable axes) Of course there’s much more than just the KCM: the font thumbnailer, the KIO worker (that I don’t know we really need), the preview app (it’s a KPart, too), the installer (click a font file to install it), so it will probably not be 6.1 material entirely :-) My goal is to get as far as possible with rendering through Qt’s font engine (which has seen a lot of work in Qt 6.7), though the QML glyph cache is abysmally slow compared to Qt 5 (as you can witness in the Emojier, too, cf. QTBUG-120007). I might end up just painting everything in QPainter, or find a different font rendering lib that isn’t Xft to do the job based on what Fontconfig (that I need to query anyway) wants. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: auto-comment on bugzilla when making an MR?
Good idea! I often post a Phabricator patch links on a bug report to ask the bug reporters to test and see if it fixes the issue for them, too. It also shows the reporter and other members of the team that someone already triaged the issue or it is already being worked on. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: Regarding KDE Privacy policy
Hi, just start with the basics I also have yet to see a migration path for when we add new stats. From what I can tell a user gets presented what will be collected in a UI that isn't very good and once user enables, we can just add stuff without the user every having to re-consent or get told about it? Right now we e.g. log panel count. If user then updates the system, suddenly we might log all kinds of additional stuff. What's the upgrade plan for this? Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available
Hi, The website loading time is extreme. This pointless "preloader" busy spinner occupies the entire website until it is completely loaded which just took several minutes (!) here on my 100 MBit/s connection. Cheers Kai Uwe Am 27.11.19 um 20:05 schrieb Aleix Pol: Dear KDE community, Some of you already saw it at Akademy, but we wanted to make sure that you were all aware of all the great things we did last year 2018 https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2018/ Please take a look and share far and wide! Best regards, Aleix Pol i Gonzalez, KDE e.V. President
Re: Retirement of notes.kde.org
The fact that URLs were random, kind of gave me the feeling that they were only to be viewed by people with the link. You're aware that there's an overview by letter on notes.kde.org? :) Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: vote invitation sent out for goal voting
Hi, Sorry, these all are... Irrelevant, incomprehensible, ineligible or inconsiderable. Care to explain why you think that is? Besides, the previous set of goals has not been achieved by a country mile. Ignoring the fact that this isn't a SI unit, this is just not true. For instance, our tooling and documentation has been improved a lot as a result of the streamlined. Before, when a new person joined the channel asking for help on a problem or what they could do to fix something, you had to talk them through git and cmake and everything manually. Now you can just send them a link which has all the information they need. Sure, we might not have achieved world domination, but claiming that the goals weren't achieved at all does a disservice to all the fine folks involved in the process. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: Invent/gitlab, issues and bugzilla
Hi, > What bugzilla has over gitlab issues is reasonable solid set of features that help actually tracking and managing the bug report. It's not that I'm a huge bugzilla fan, it could be much better, but I need those features. > I complained about the same thing but I was told you can replicate most of those (OS, platform, etc) using tags/badges and project structures. There isn't a 1:1 mapping of fields and tech we got used to from Bugzilla. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: KDE will be attending OpenExpo Europe in June
Hi, > We are currently looking for people who would like to help us staff > the booth and so if you think can help, please subscribe to the task > at https://phabricator.kde.org/T10539. Plasma team is doing a sprint in Valencia on that date, just two hours by high speed train as far as I can tell. > It seems that their CfP is also still open (https://openexpoeurope.com/oe2019/how-to-be-part/), so if you would like to participate like that, get in touch with them. That was a bit of a short notice (I don't read email on weekends), they're all closed now. I could have hopped on a train and done the "Plasma for Device Creation" talk I did in Brazil which fits in with the target audience at that expo. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: KDE Privacy Sprint - Find a date
Hi, > Can you not set TorBrowser in > > System Settings > Personalisation > Applications > Default Applications > > Web Browser > > Or are you meaning the Plasma bit? That sounds necessary? I think what's happening is that by default when you click a link a KIO Stat job is spawned to figure out what mime type is behind that link to open it in the respective application. For example, if you have a link to a JPEG image, it will open that thing in Gwenview instead of the browser. The KIO job obviously does a direct query, not going through Tor. Having all http(s) links open in a browser is one of the first settings I change in a fresh setup as I dislike the delay it causes when clicking links and there's also numerous complaints about this on BKO. Given web browsers can even open PDFs and all sorts of crap these days (and the privacy implications that were raised in this thread), might be worth revisiting the defaults for that setting. Cheers Kai Uwe
KDE at the LinuxDay Vorarlberg
Hi all, on Saturday Myriam and I attended LinuxDay Vorarlberg [1], which is together with Chemnitzer Linuxtage one of the oldest Linux gathering in the German-speaking region. We had with us a laptop wired up to a fancy ultra-widescreen monitor, a Nexus 5X, and the Pinebook, all running the latest and greatest Plasma. Visitor feedback was overwhelmingly positive, people love what we're doing! Plasma, Kate, Krita, KDE Connect, ... all received lots of praise from visitors stopping by the booth. In past years when I showcased our software suite I often heard "I last used KDE 10 years ago but this looks amazing, I have to try", this time around it was mostly "I recently switched [from Gnome, from Windows, from KDE 3, from Trinity, even] to Plasma 5 and I love it" OpenSUSE had a booth where they had a notebook running Gnome 3 and one running Plasma and I was quite surprised by how poorly Gnome performed on it while Plasma just flew. They surely weren't the newest devices, and I don't know how comparable their specs are and whether Gnome was running Wayland, but I observed similar behavior on the "try out" computers they had in the leisure area. It shows that our hard performance work pays off. Our look and feel these days, providing a unified look across all applications and toolkits was also prasied a lot; and those few who disliked Breeze (mostly those that came from KDE 3) are glad we still maintain and ship the Oxygen widget style and icon set. To sum it all up, you all did a fantastic job and can be very proud! :) Cheers and have a great KDE birthday aftermath week Kai Uwe [1] https://www.linuxday.at/
Re: Bugzilla template problems
Am 04.10.2018 um 22:11 schrieb Harald Sitter: Oh btw, just as a random FYI: I think stuff like this is why ubuntu eventually ended up having a GUI tool (ubuntu-bug) to help file bug reports with useful metadata. Putting it on the user to figure this stuff out is unreliable at best and can easily get overwhelming. +1 I find it odd that you can write meaningful bugreports using DrKonqi that include version information and find the correct component whereas the "Report a bug" in "Help" just opens bugzilla webpage. It does fill out the correct product and version but could surely be improved or turned into a proper wizard with some tips and tricks and duplicate finder and what not.
Re: Improving Bugzilla Status Names
Hi, > Here is my follow-up change recommendation based on feedback and research: > > UNCONFIRMED -> REPORTED > WONTFIX -> INTENTIONAL > INVALID -> NOTABUG one issue I'm having with "REPORTED" is that it shows up as "REPO" in the list and can easily be confused with "REOP" for "REOPENED". Perhaps we need something different for Reopened then. Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: QtWS conference
Hi Adriaan, > I'm willing to coordinate a booth, make sure stuff gets to the venue, etc. but we'll need warm bodies there to smile, hand out pamphlets, explain the KDE manifesto, etc. etc. Take a look at last year's team, that was great. That's great, thank you so much. I quite regret not having been there last time. > So, who's available (5-6 december) and willing? Count me in! :) Cheers Kai Uwe
Re: Replacement of notes.kde.org
Hi, > Click the + menu at the top (next to the home in the files view), select document. Then click on your new document to edit I did just that [1] but how to make it writable to all other kde identity accounts? Cheers, Kai Uwe
Re: [kde-community] New maintainers wanted: KDE Telepathy, KAccounts, Plasma Notifications and others
Hi, thanks for your hard work and good luck with your new job! :) I'd love taking over KNotifications with the Plasma Notification applet as I would really like to move that stack forward to better follow Plasma's mantra of not standing in the user's way. I already made a wiki page [1] with some thoughts and ideas that might be worth trying out. Cheers, Kai Uwe [1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] 20th anniversary parties - global organizer needed
Hi, thanks, I added a party in Karlsruhe, like in the good ol' days :) I think 14 October is perfect, even, as it's a Friday already. Please add yourselves if you'd like to come. If there's any people left in Karlsruhe still, I'd be grateful for some tips - all I know is Stövchen and Vogelbräu ;) Cheers, Kai Uwe ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
