Hey all, following are notes from the "Tooling for Plasma2" discussion we had here in the sprint.
Problems we currently face in Plasma (more details below) - no real quality management - we have no backtrace from QML - no way to easily fully test plasmoids standalone - weak upstream relation (with Qt) - plasma-shell output is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge - no bugs triaging - no maintainers - url interceptor problem Standalone plasmoid testing - a "test" directory should be added to Plasma Package, containing basic test for plasmoids - an env variable that would crash the plasmoid on warnings would be useful - make plasmoidviewer an actual "viewer", ie. don't place the plasmoid in another containment inside it, but be the containment for it - there's no way to attach QML debugger to plasmoids, David Edmundson will investigate - a possible idea is to have tiny app embedding qmlscene to allow QML debuggers on plasmoids - plasmaengineexplorer should have modeltest added by default - quite useful would be to have a way to test every QML component of a plasmoid separately Weak upstream relation - we don't really tell upstream when we don't like something - we should actively (or more actively) suggest improvements to things that matter to us - we should also point out to the upstream where we see problems Plasma bug situation - possible solution for current bug situation is to make really clear what we do support and what not - only maintain the core (the things we support^), say "sorry" for the rest (we can't fix everything, pragmatically) - figure out a way to nicely deprecate old (Plasma1) bugs - START CARING about our bugs for Plasma2 - Martin Graesslin wanted me to put "Best practices" here Maintainers - once we sort out bugzilla, make default assignees for components Alex promised to help porting all the X11 and Wayland stuff. That's all the notes, if you have questions, feel free to ask. Cheers -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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