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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 01, 2022,
updated Oct 16, 2022
> Iâm at Akademy this week discussing and planning the future with my awesome fellow KDE contributors! So next weekâs post will be huge.
UPDATE
> Niccolo and The Dawn of Consistency. He gives the example of KHamburgerMenu which should have a similar widget which is a panel, having a common component was something he kept talking of but it was never done. App redundancy, one part of the goal was removing multiple applications. This depends if KDE is an umbrella for any app or if itâs a brand that promotes a set of apps. For example Maui is very much doing the wrong thing with their own design with their own Kit and they have their own shell but MauiShel isnât part of KDE even though MauiKit is. Maybe we should have a requirement for KDE look and feel as part of being KDE. Some apps are a bit stagnant, in general Iâd like to move them to Kirigami because that helps consistency. Kate and KWrite use the same code so congratulations. Band consistency, many apps had their own website, there has been a lot of improvement for this. Consistency within applications has improved.
> Mevin talks about Wayland goal. In Plasma 5.24 we got the Overview Effect, improved NVidia support (where the distro uses the patches), improved stability too. In Plasma 5.25 we got touch mode for better tablet support and a tonne of stability improvements. In Plasma 5.26 we got improved virtual keyboard support, improved graphical tablet support, xwayland and DPI improvements and a lot of stability improvement. But showstoppers are still missing colour profiles, blurry rendering with fractional scaling and many more. Virtualisation and screen recording still needed before people can switch from X.
Room 2:
Jonathan Riddell today:
> The sun is shining, the beach is busy, the cava is flowing, the record shops are full of hipsters. Akademy is in full swing here in Barcelona, Hereâs some scribbled notes I took from some of the talks I went to incase they are any interest to anyone.
> The keynote was from Ashai dev Hector Martin. Ashai Linux runs on M1 ARM macs. EFI is a security nightmare, itâs an operating system in itself. Linus said Apple Macs wonât be available for Linux unless Apple opens up its GPU. Macs have a permissive mode to boot custom kernels including XNU (Appleâs open source OS kernel). He got himself a patreon and github sponsorship and enough people fund him to do it as a job. He did lots of impressive things to get Linux working on ARM M1 Macs and voila his video shows a Plasma desktop on a Mac.
Nearly a week later:
> After two days of talks we have moved to a week of BoF sessions. (Iâm not a fan of the term BoF but Iâve never managed to think of anything better.) Hereâs some notes I made incase anyone is interested.
> The big news is the Frameworks 6 session had some Plasma people there too and voila we have a plan for 6. Most Frameworks and even most Plasma is already working with Qt 6. So the last Frameworks 5 release is due in December and then work will happen to finalise the porting to Frameworks 6 and once thatâs solid releases will start again using Qt 6. And for Plasma weâll make a final Plasma 5 release at the start of next year versioned 5.27. That will be LTS so weâll stop the 5.24 LTS releases and make further 5.27 releases as long as they are useful. The finalising of the porting to Qt 6 will start in January and weâll schedule a release whenever that becomes practicle which should be not too far into 2023.
Devin Lin's (espidev) Blog:
> This year, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Akademy in person (@ Barcelona) for the first time!
> For context, I first started contributing to Plasma Mobile in 2020, right around when easily testable hardware (ex. PinePhone) was taking shape. I originally started with some contributions to some applications to learn Qt and C++, but have since then taken more responsibility with tasks from all around the software stack.
By Kai Uwe Broulik:
> I just returned from this yearâs KDE Akademy in Barcelona. After two years of only virtual sprints it has been great to finally meet up with many fellow KDE friends, most of which I havenât seen since 2019, and also get to know some of the faces of people that have joined in-between.
> Whenever Iâm using the public WiFi somewhere, I feel like there should be a hint in the network Plasmoid about logging into the captive portal. There is a persistent notification when connecting but once you close it, you canât get it back. For implementing this, I wanted to use the NetworkConnectivity enum from our networkmanager-qt Framework. In the early days of QtQuick, however, we typically created a wrapper class for exposing enums to QML, which meant having to sync up two separate implementations.
> Qtâs tooling has evolved a lot since and nowadays itâs possible to register namespaces, too. To do so, you need to add the Q_NAMESPACE macro and annotate the enums using Q_ENUM_NS. In the networkmanager-qt case, there was a catch, though: the namespaceâs meta object had to be exported since plasma-nm is a separate project. Thatâs what the Q_NAMESPACE_EXPORT macro is for: once added, I could just register the enum to the QML engine and use it directly from the Plasmoid UI.
Late coverage again:
> This year, I had the amazing opportunity to attend KDE Akademy in person for the first time! The host city was Barcelona. It is my second time visiting the city but it was my first time to attend KDE Akademy. Actually it was my first KDE event.
> For KDE friends who don't know me, I mainly contribute to openSUSE, GNOME, Nextcloud, ownCloud and GNU Health. I have fewer contributions to Fedora, Ubuntu and ONLYOFFICE and a few here and there to FOSS projects.
> Question. Why did you attend KDE Akademy? Two were the reasons. The first and main reason was to see the organization of the conference from the inside, since my University will host the next KDE Akademy. The second reason was to "introduce" myself to the KDE community, since I contribute to other projects. Actually, I know a person from the KDE board but community is not only one person.
> The only familiar person I could meet was openSUSE's community manager. Unfortunately he couldn't attend, so he asked me to represent openSUSE. The duties were to have a booth and present something openSUSE related for 3 minutes. I had an idea to propose my friend George to do his first presentation to an open source conference and start his open source journey. He was very excited and he did it.
Devin Lin's (espidev) Blog today:
> This year, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Akademy in person (@ Barcelona) for the first time!
> For context, I first started contributing to Plasma Mobile in 2020, right around when easily testable hardware (ex. PinePhone) was taking shape. I originally started with some contributions to some applications to learn Qt and C++, but have since then taken more responsibility with tasks from all around the software stack.
Timothée Ravier today:
> Thanks to Fedora sponsorship (both for my travel and the conference itself), I was able to attend Akademy last week in Barcelona. It was great to finally meet in person folks Iâve been working with for the last couple of years.
> Iâll report here on the discussion that happened in the Flatpak Birds of a Feather session. Iâve made another post focused on the talks I found interesting during the conference.
> Thanks to Fedora sponsorship (both for my travel and the conference itself), I was able to attend Akademy last week in Barcelona. It was great to finally meet in person folks Iâve been working with for the last couple of years.
> Iâll highlight here a few talks that I found interesting. Iâve made another post focused on the future for Flatpak support and integration in KDE.
> The full agenda for the two days of conference is at conf.kde.org. You can find the recordings for all talks as raw videos on KDEâs YouTube channel until they are cut into more easily linkable videos.
KDE Dot News today:
> Akademy 2022 was held in Barcelona from the 1st to the 7th of October. As usual, the weekend of Saturday 1st of October and Sunday 2nd of October was dedicated to talks, panels and presentations. Community members and guests laid out for attendees what had been going on within KDE's projects (and adjacent projects), the state of the art, and where things were headed.
This evening it's Nate Graham:
> Two weeks ago I attended Akademy in Barcelona, KDEâs annual conference. Let me tell you, it was great to finally, finally, finally see people in person again! It was so nice to meet up with old friends, and put faces to names for new ones!
> Four years ago I gave a perhaps arrogantly ambitious talk at Akademy 2018 entitled âKonquering the World â a 7-Step Plan to KDE World Dominationâ. In it, I described how the at-the-time new Usability & Productivity goal supported a deeper end goal of getting KDE Plasma pre-installed on commercially available hardwareâthat being the only way I believe we can introduce a truly huge number of new people to KDEâs friendly and powerful flavor of free software.
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