hi ... while most discussion has concentrated so far on "what the (#*$ is plasma?", for which i nominate this as the official theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrDui7xeGv0 and looking at topics regarding specific functionalty integration (e.g. "how do we deal with beamers", "what about social media?") there's another topic looming that will impact all of our efforts: wayland. kwin needs more people working on its wayland compositor. there is a lot of X11 API usage in Plasma Desktop for things like panel unhiding. XAtom are used in in libplasma for window manager integration. (in Frameworks, that code has moved to libkwindowsystem, but the issue is no different as the code was just moved, not modified) Active is probably a perfect testbed for Wayland integration (simpler use cases, hardware clearly defined, etc.) but then we need a plan for how to determine that Wayland support is good enough to use in Active, good enough to bring to Desktop and Netbook, and how to actually do that. Qt gets Wayland support in Qt5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQXkQ2QgFZY it will be a significant step forward for F/OSS clients, and it would be great to be a step ahead here to take advantage of it. i don't know if people will have the time or interest in discussing this at the sprint, but it would be an excellent topic to at least start discussion on. p.s. at Tokamaks in the past, we've take on topics that we know will not get implemented between now and the next Tokamak. we discuss them so that when the next Tokamak happens, we can start with fully formed ideas and the necessary research done. it has been rather useful in ensuring progress gets made. -- Aaron J. Seigo
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