On 23/2/24 08:27, 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
Agreed, this will make themes uploaded the KDE Store less likely to
contain malicious code
* Start adding release notes to our apps' AppStream metadata [2]
Regarding this we could add (or improve any existing) linting job to
include appdata checks.
* 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* HIG is outdated and mostly ignored, and needs an overhaul to make it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
Please feel free to CC/invite me on anything related to the store as I
manage the servers and have direct contact with the Web team that
manages the software. I am always looking for new ways to remove spam,
keep the platform secure and any ways to make sure the content is well
curated.
* Our virtual keyboard situation is not great and needs focused work
On this I think it might be worth looking into working with Dobey who
works on Maliit. It's used by the Plasma Mobile stack and I think Dobey
is the only major contributor to it. It could either be brought under
the KDE umbrella or forked to be a KDE specific OSK
* 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
