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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Post-MegaRelease projects
From:       Akseli Lahtinen <akselmo () akselmo ! dev>
Date:       2024-02-23 17:27:49
Message-ID: 4013482.ctKIQVmA7N () fedora-desktop
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I wouldn't mind working on the high-contrast accessibility mode toggle,
since we have now unified all the contrast values for separators.

- Akseli

On Thursday 22 February 2024 23:57:07 EET 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 * HIG is outdated and mostly ignored, and needs an overhaul to make it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




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