Kubuntu Meeting 2009-12-22

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/01/21/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

ACTION ITEMS ScottK: work with tomplast to get usb-modeswitch into main JonathanRiddell, quintasan: switch qt to ibus

Does the Kubuntu Council need a mailing list

We decided not to have a mailing list, the launchpad page has a "contact this team" facility

Speedcrunch vs. KCalc

We decided to switch to KCalc from Speedcrunch which saves some size and gives us more translations

Ubuntu IRC Council for channel domination

The Ubuntu IRC Council want ops access on our channel. We weren't clear why this was decided without consultation with the Kubuntu community (JonathanRiddell originally registered the Kubuntu namespace with freenode but this seems to have been changed without consent at some point). We decided to postpone the decision until a more full explanation can be given on the mailing list.

DBusMenu and applications getting creative with tray menus

Aurelien discussed the status of the DBusMenu implementation for systray icons. We decided to try and add a "don't use dbus menu" option to the API for apps which use a-typical menu widgets such as kopete.

How will the experience in Kubuntu 10.04 be for mobile broadband users?

This is a matter for upstream knetworkmanager.

usb-modeswitch is needed for some devices and ScottK and tomplast will put it into main.

IRC client deathmatch?

We discussed IRC clients again. There doesn't seem to be much to advantage one over the other, especially if Quassel gets gettext support. We postponed any change.

Input Methods once again

quintasan and jonathan to look at changing Qt default input method to ibus

mplayerthumbs vs kffmpegthumbnailer

kffmpegthumbnailer is a nice thumbnailer for videos, quite fast. Space permitting we will try and get it onto the CD.