On 2/22/24 22:57, Nate Graham wrote:
Hello everyone,
Congrats to the entire KDE community on the impending launch of the
KDE 6 MegaRelease! I'm so impressed with how folks came together to
make it amazing. It's a very impressive release and I think people are
gonna love it.
I've started pondering post-megarelease projects. We've spent so long
on porting and bugfixing that I think it might be useful to shift
gears to feature work, and I'd like to brainstorm potential
large-scale projects and gauge the level of interest in putting
resources into them soon.
Here are some ideas of mine to get the creative juices started:
* David's input method playground stuff [1] is amazing and needs to be
developed and productized
* GNOME's Libadwaita app platform has been a runaway success for them;
evaluate our offerings in comparison and see what we can do better
* Unified theming infrastructure for KDE apps, GTK apps, and Plasma.
** Relatedly: QML/JS in themes is dangerous; move away from it
* Start adding release notes to our apps' AppStream metadata [2]
* Finish up and ship the new Breeze icons
* HIG is outdated and mostly ignored, and needs an overhaul to make it
useful
* Telemetry system has not proved to be very useful and needs an overhaul
* store.kde.org is full of low-quality or broken content; make a push
for KDE people to take ownership of content moderation, QA, etc. Also
any relevant and needed tech improvements
* Our virtual keyboard situation is not great and needs focused work
* KWallet needs an overhaul
* Have KWin (optionally) remember window positions on Wayland
* Build a "System misconfiguration detection hub" app [3]
Feel free to discuss, and propose your own!
Nate
[1]
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/new-ideas-using-wayland-input-methods/
[2] https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/354
[3] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/issues/64
Hi,
some ideas for strategically useful things:
- finalize the move away from Qt5/KF5 by porting remaining projects
- Update our QML code to make use of modern practices/tools (qmllint,
qmlformat, qmlcachegen, qmltc, qmlls etc)
- Invest in making it possible to write KDE-aligned apps in other
languages (IMO the most relevant contenders would be Python and Rust
since these are popular and there's prior art for using them with Qt)
- Work towards bringing features from our widgets-based frameworks
(configurable toolbars/shortcuts, KHamburgerMenu, KCommandBar etc) to
QML apps
Don't take this as a "I am going to work on this" list, but I'd be happy
to assist with any of the listed topics.
Cheers
Nico
