/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/10/23/#kubuntu-devel.txt

ahoneybunvote in Nov?00:56
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ovidiu-florinahoneybun: what feedback section?05:48
soeegood morning06:14
cortex_morning06:28
cortex_xenial is the name of the new version right?06:28
cortex_oh xenial xerus06:30
cortex_i like this name06:30
soeecortex_: hi, yes. Though i have no idea what it means :D07:16
soeeGoogle translator can't hadle this name -.-07:16
cortex_soee: a squirrel07:17
cortex_:P07:17
soeeon the pic it looks like hedgehog07:18
thelionroarswell done all, 15.10 is freakin' beautiful07:50
lordievaderGood morning.08:16
cortex_morning08:16
viphi ho08:50
sick_rimmitRiddell: Well if ever there was an email to weep over, that was it09:01
sick_rimmitOh Boy!!09:01
Riddellthanks sick_rimmit :)09:05
lordievaderI hope that the roads of Kubuntu and Riddel somewhere in the future merge once more.09:11
sneleRiddell: thank you for everything you have done 09:12
sneleI hope this is not the end for Kubuntu...09:13
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santa_Mirv: good morning, do you have a stating ppa with Qt 5.5 so it could be used to do a test rebuild of KDE packages against it?10:14
santa_* staging10:15
yossarianukcongrats on 15.10 everybody !10:15
yossarianukwill these fixes for 5.4.3 be in the normal repos for 15.10 (without PPA?) -> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/10/looking-at-some-crashers-fixed-this-week/10:15
yossarianukim never sure what the policy is with kubuntu + point releases of KDE.10:15
santa_yossarianuk: if I'm not mistaken, newer point releases go to updates and major releases go to backports10:16
santa_not sure how it works for Qt10:17
yossarianukcheers santa_: 10:19
yossarianukbit early for you to be out.....10:19
yossarianukps -> i've been a very good boy!10:19
santa_haha10:21
santa_the nickname actually is my family name "Santamaría" shortened10:22
yossarianukits ok you're secret is safe .....10:22
ovidiu-florinRiddell: are you around/10:25
ovidiu-florin?10:25
Riddellhi ovidiu-florin10:25
ovidiu-florincan I have a call with you or do you reffer writing?10:25
Riddelleither way, landline number at jriddell.org/contact10:26
ovidiu-florinRiddell: tried calling both10:28
ovidiu-florinnothing10:28
ovidiu-florinboth go to voicemail10:28
Riddellcurious10:29
Riddellor google hangout, or just chat here10:29
* clivejo smiles at Riddell's use of OSM 10:29
ovidiu-florinI'll type here10:29
ovidiu-florinRiddell: please let me know if my wording comes accross to hard. 10:30
Riddellclivejo: cooler use at http://whitewater.quaker.eu.org/ :)10:30
ovidiu-florinI'm sorry to see you leave the release manager position10:30
ovidiu-florinbut I dissagree that we should post your letter in the Kubuntu news 10:30
ovidiu-florinWe can post a link to the mail list archive10:30
ovidiu-florinIMO the news should be from the project, not from a aspecific person10:31
Riddellreasonable enough to disagree, it's not what we've done before10:31
ovidiu-florinthe wording in that news article should be in the plural second person, as to we, the Kubuntu project are sorry to see you go10:32
Riddellbut I wanted to address the users of the project directly10:32
Riddelland that's the best way10:32
Riddellit seems unfair to leave without saying so clearly or saying why10:32
ovidiu-florinI think that should be done on your blog, not the projects10:32
ovidiu-florinI didn't say you should say that10:32
ovidiu-florinI'm only saying that the news article should come from the Kubuntu team, and formulated as such10:33
ovidiu-florinand link to your blog post and the mail archive10:33
santa_valorie: https://community.kde.org/User:Santa one of the 2 wiki pages I'm writing to apply for membership (I plan to write other one in the ubuntu wiki more focused to the application itself and my help in kubuntu)10:33
santa_good enough? suggestions?10:33
ovidiu-florinRiddell: do you dissagree?10:33
clivejosanta_: I wouldnt put "not a good place to work and not planning back"10:34
clivejoput a positive spin on it!10:34
Riddellovidiu-florin: yes, but only because these are extraordinary situations, the project and community has been attacked from ubuntu and canonical and it seems reasonable to say so.  but do ask kubuntu council members if they would rather it was changed, I won't mind if they do10:34
Riddellbut it seems disingenious (to use one of sabdfl's favourite words for me) to leave without saying that there are problems and what they are10:36
ovidiu-florinRiddell: I think the message should be there, but it should be comming from the Kubuntu team, not specifically you.10:36
ovidiu-florinsince this is the Kubuntu site, it belongs to the project, not to any particular person10:36
yossarianukriddell: can I ask what you plan to do next ? i.e are you still going to help out with kubuntu, move to debian ? (just interested really)10:37
clivejoovidiu-florin: well it wasn’t a voluntary step down was it? 10:38
santa_clivejo: I had my doubts about that statement, but the truth is, I was expelled from both projects for political reasons and I have anything except nice things to say about them. so I guess one possible approach would be skiping the statement in question10:39
santa_thanks for the suggestion10:39
ovidiu-florinclivejo: I don't see the connection between what I said and your point10:40
clivejosanta_: just suggests a case of sour grapes and that maybe you arent a team player10:41
Riddellovidiu-florin: if the project's parent forces the project to lose out that is project news.  but as I say ask other council members and do as you wish10:41
ovidiu-florinRiddell: again, I don't want the message removed10:41
ovidiu-florinit belongs there 10:42
ovidiu-florinwith all the details in there10:42
ovidiu-florinbut the article should be formulated as if the Kubuntu team sais it10:42
ovidiu-florinand gives quites from your email10:43
ovidiu-florinthat's all10:43
Riddellovidiu-florin: sure, redraft it and get someone on the council to aprove it then10:43
santa_clivejo: fair enough, deleted, even while I think the projects in question don't actually deserve it10:44
Mirvsanta_: good afternoon. yes, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting for wily (xenial later) PPA with Qt 5.5.1. If interested, the PPA should also already work as is for KDE as it has the required rebuilds of frameworkintegration, plasma-framework and kwin (although I haven't tested myself)10:45
clivejosanta_: maybe you could explain your reasons for leaving the project, let the reader make up their mind10:45
santa_Mirv: excellent, thanks for the information10:49
clivejoovidiu-florin: have the KCC not got a statement prepared, I thought this was on the cards for at least a month now?10:50
santa_clivejo: haha, well, lets skip it, because if I do that I don't see a way of explaining that without being "gracefully rude" (torvalds-like)10:51
ovidiu-florinclivejo: I wasn't aware of it10:51
ovidiu-florina mistake on my part10:51
Mirvyossarianuk: I've done most of the Ubuntu Qt uploads, but for wily SRU:s anyone can take the ball. I'd start with filing LP bug (or bugs) against the component (usually qtbase-opensource-src or qtdeclarative-opensource-src), linking to the codereview url:s with 5.4 branch commits and filling the required information of the section 3.3 at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates so it's ready for bo10:51
Mirvth xenial landing and wily SRU10:51
santa_also it's material for a short article rather than just a line in a wiki10:51
clivejoovidiu-florin: you werent aware that Riddell was "stepping down"10:52
clivejoI thought KCC had a statement prepared to announce it and the fact yofel was "stepping up"10:54
ovidiu-florinstepping down from that specific role, now10:54
clivejoas Release Manager10:54
ovidiu-florinI knew he intends to be less and less involved in Kubuntu10:56
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yossarianukMirv: cheers11:01
clivejoI dont think that was his intention, rather what he was forced into doing! 11:02
clivejoanyways, Id like to thank Riddell for his contribution over the years and for his part in making Kubuntu the best OS out there !11:04
TJ-Same here; is there any idea of how the remaining team can fill the gap?11:08
clivejoand also Riddell's patience and willingness to help others, a trait I have noticed in yofel which helps me believe Kubuntu is in good hands going forward11:08
yofelTJ-: somewhat, he was already not contributing much back in oneiric when he worked for a different canonical team. But considering that he might not be the only one that leaves (or at least sitter will too) we'll have to see who plans to work on what in the next weeks. Then we can figure things out from there11:11
TJ-yofel: yes, that's my thoughts. I'll tell you what frustrates me most - lack of process documentation. For example, despite observing in this channel, and having both the programming and Debian/Ubuntu packaging/process skills, I still have not grasped the process - it seems to be piece-meal, with different packages using different repos (source, packaging), publishing paths, CI, etc. 11:13
yofelwell, I fear that you then actually have a good grasp of the.. erm.. "process"11:14
TJ-That being the case, taking some time now the release is done to actually document that for the 'standard' and 'exceptional' cases would go a long way to making me, for one, more willing to invest time in contributing. Right now, I feel I'd waste most of the time I have available in trying to grasp the process and figure out the exceptions11:14
santa_yofel: we could do a test rebuild of frameworks/plasma/apps against Qt 5.5 with an improved kubuntu automation following the design we discussed the other day11:14
yofelit's something we need to work on, and I'm glad that santa_ is helping with that11:14
yofelsanta_: that would be interesting, yes. How did you guys do the test rebuilds back for gcc5? In some random PPA?11:15
TJ-My other issue is of course, the background vis-a-vis Canonical. I experienced what J.R. has to a lesser extent with the kernel team, back in 2008/9 which has always made me wary11:16
santa_yofel: I did it in a suite of siduction's kdenext, which works with the tech I told you yesterday11:19
santa_what we can do is using both the staging kubuntu ppa's11:19
yofelwe could also add a new one for exactly such purposes and ask for enough space11:20
santa_... and the suites I have in kdenext11:20
clivejohow many people currently sit on the KCC?11:20
yofel611:20
clivejois that back to fully strength?11:21
yofelyes, it's always 6 with 3 elected each year for 2 years11:21
santa_yofel: sure, it would be interesting to upload in both places so we make sure the improved automation stuff is generic enough to cover both use cases11:21
santa_* both places: kdenext + ubuntu's ppas11:21
yofelsanta_: right, that would indeed be a good test run11:22
yofelis qt5.5 already in a PPA?11:22
santa_yep, see above, I asked where it was11:23
santa_https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting11:23
yofelaah right, thanks11:23
BluesKajHiyas all11:34
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santa_yofel: so, do you work this wekend? I think I have time work on the automation thing, I would need you to include the incoming patches in kubuntu-automation + test the thing for ubuntu's ppas + of course if you want, improve my patches/design12:18
yofelsure, I should have some time over the weekend. Mostly on sunday probably12:19
santa_excellent12:20
yofeldo you have those scripts somewhere public now?12:28
yofelwe might also want to move the automation stuff into git while we're at it12:29
santa_yofel: I have a working do-all here: https://gitlab.com/groups/siduction-tools also I have sent a patch to improve the build depends bumping12:42
yofelthanks12:43
santa_yofel: regarding the move to git we could follow this course of action: create a git repo, put in a branch what you have in bzr put in other branch what I have for siduction and at some point we will be able to merge12:43
yofelyeah, that was the idea.. that's a lot easier with git - as you can trivially merge remote branches as well12:44
santa_yofel: and if you move to git, you could go for a) alioth -> no permissions for me there or b) somewhere else such as github or gitlab12:44
santa_depending if you want me to push commits directly or not12:45
yofelmy plan was to use launchpad. The UI Part isn't quite finished, but otherwise the git support works fine12:45
santa_fantastic12:45
santa_yofel: so you you take care of creating the repo with 2 branches? (but please don't merge them yet as we need to work out that later)12:46
yofelI'll first take care of creating the repo and integrating the bzr history. Once that's done we can talk about what to put into the other branch12:47
santa_allright12:48
yofelRiddell: what's your plan regarding qa.kubuntu.co.uk? Can we just keep it as it is for now or should we look for alternatives? (IIRC you're paying for that right now?)12:48
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Riddellyofel: just keep it as it is, no need to change13:30
yofelyay, thanks!13:30
cortex_lol Riddell i seen you on the news13:46
cortex_on slashdot13:46
cortex_or hacker news13:47
RiddellI made slashdot?13:47
cortex_no sry hacker news13:47
cortex_hehe13:47
Riddelloh, not today13:47
cortex_Jonathan Riddell Stands Down as Release Manager of Kubuntu (kubuntu.org)13:48
cortex_yes13:48
cortex_Riddell: today13:48
cortex_1 hour ago Riddell 13:48
yossarianukdo people still slashddot?13:49
yofelit *is* still the best source of random flamewars on the net13:51
yofelalthough phoronix comes close13:51
mamarleyYeah, there are all sorts of KDE haters on Phoronix.13:52
marco-parilloI am more likely to learn something from slashdot comments than phoronix comments13:52
yossarianukI don't understand the hate for Phoronix... It is a good source of news for desktop Linux. The comments section I do understand (but that goes for most sites that allow comments)13:53
yossarianukthe very worst (non tech) is the independent online newspaper - its a 'liberal' paper but the commentators would fit into Germany in the 1930's. 13:54
mamarleyAt least for a while, Phoronix took a bunch of things mgraesslin said out-of-context or something of that sort.13:55
yofelwell, he suffers from the same kind of "put out news fast without doing much of investigation" illness as /. (When it comes to the technical parts I agree)13:55
shadeslayer_https://twitter.com/rohangarg/status/65755610915110912413:56
mgraesslinyossarianuk: the problem is that phoronix does click-bait to attrackt the people in the forums. Putting out stuff controversial where there is nothing controversial just to get the people go nuts in the forum13:57
mamarleyNontroversies!13:57
yofelshadeslayer_: oh? Martins kubuntu experience scared you, eh? :D13:58
mgraesslinyossarianuk: a good example for this was the blog post about the critics on Plasma 5. It was on Phoronix before I for example noticed it on planetkde. From someone who he never had reported about. Clearly only for the forums posted, the more it attrackts discussion, the better13:58
yossarianukmgraesslin: you wrote an article rebutting that I believe ?13:59
mgraesslinyossarianuk: yes I did, but the damage is done13:59
mgraesslinyossarianuk: and phoronix is to blame for stuff like "even KDE devs say it's not good", because he didn't check whether it's a dev who wrote it and just put it there14:00
yossarianukI do get the clickbait/ads issue - however it is also a good source of desktop linux news, other than reddit there are not many alternatives.14:00
mgraesslinno need to correct a head line like that. Oh no, that's not what Phoronix would ever do14:00
yossarianukmgraesslin: well thats just shoddy journalism.. 14:01
mgraesslinwell it creates problems for us14:01
mgraesslinwhich is the reason why we don't like it14:01
mgraesslinnot to mention the "benchmarks"14:02
yossarianukI saw the article criticising plasma's theme compared to gnome - however most complaints seemed to resolve around the theme used in Fedora. 14:02
yossarianuki.e not breeze at all.14:02
shadeslayer_Benchmarks are cool k14:02
shadeslayer_They tell you exactly nothing and are a great way to pass your time14:03
yossarianukthe phoronix-test-suite does have 'some' uses...14:03
shadeslayer_Its like watching a movie14:03
mgraesslinshadeslayer_: let's benchmark your screen against my screen14:03
shadeslayer_Only worse14:03
cortex_os x ?14:03
yofelwe could benchmark crash counts... ^^14:03
cortex_:P14:03
shadeslayer_Let's benchmark benches14:03
cortex_only kubuntu for me14:03
cortex_if it works14:03
yofeloh lol, people on phoronix giving distro name proposals "I hope he starts his own distro and calls it Kufucyu."14:03
shadeslayer_Can you benchmark benchmarks?14:04
cortex_my pc is weird14:04
yofelyou could benchmarks different VMs that run benchmarks..14:04
mgraesslinoh a meta-benchmark14:04
yossarianukcan you name a better benchmark app though (aside from the odd game that has the feature built in)14:05
yofelximion: :D http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/830530-kubuntu-s-release-manager-calls-it-quits?p=830554#post830554 14:05
yossarianuki mean better for benchmarking games/3d really.14:05
ximionyofel: oh, the Phoronix doomsday people are there :P14:06
* ximion is happy about every new Tanglu user14:06
yossarianukKufucyu is actually semi-funny.14:06
cortex_very weird mint works14:07
cortex_and kubuntu not14:07
cortex_based on ubuntu..14:07
yossarianukisn't mint older ?14:07
cortex_oh maybe14:07
cortex_yes14:07
yofelit's certainly not based on the dev release, so it is older, just not sure how much14:07
yossarianukthink mint is based on 14.04 LTS.14:07
cortex_i'm talkin about the live media14:08
yofelwell, the same applies for that14:08
mgraesslinyossarianuk: don't benchmark games, it's useless. That gives as good results as doing tests for VW engines14:08
yossarianukha 14:08
mgraesslinyossarianuk: the problem is that games detect they are run in benchmark mode14:09
ximionmgraesslin: how should one do benchmarks then? They are clearly useful sometimes...14:10
* yofel remembers glxgears...14:10
yossarianukthey can prove themes though - i.e that enabling 'suspend desktop effects' and disabling vblank (nvidia) has a notable difference, etc14:10
yossarianukhowever that is apparent by playing the game ... 14:11
mamarleyDisabling vsync also causes horrible tearing artifacts though. :(14:11
yofeldepending on the game that's better than dropped frames..14:11
mgraesslinximion: start with thinking about the problem you want to benchmark, then sit down and write the code14:12
yossarianukmamarley: well with most fps steam games on my setup (i5 cpu/nvidia 450gts) most games are actually unplayable unless I disable disable 'sync to vblank'  with Nvidia-settings14:13
yossarianuki mean not just more sluggish, you cannot aim, etc 14:13
mgraesslinthe problem is that this setting results in multiple syncs14:13
mgraesslinkwin syncs, nvidia sync14:14
mgraesslinboom half the framerate14:14
yossarianuklike the controls are really laggy - disabling 'sync to vblank' and game becomes playable.14:14
yossarianukmgraesslin: that makes sense,14:14
yossarianuknote: same thing happens in other DE's not just KDe.14:14
yossarianukKDE seems to be just as fast as any other for gaming (gnome3 used to be the worse until about 3.8.)14:15
mgraesslinthat doesn't surprise me that that is a universal problem14:16
mgraesslinin my opinion: if you run a DE and a window manager for playing games, you do it wrong(TM)14:16
* mamarley doesn't play games much, but when it does, he does it wrong™.14:16
* mgraesslin needs to change that in future and make it clear that it only applies to X1114:16
clivejofor some reason gtk-recordmydesktop suddenly stopped working yesterday, any ideas why?14:18
yofelnot if "stopped working" is the only information you can gather.. any output on the command line? any errors in dmesg?14:19
mgraesslinthe moon moved, it's obvious, isn't it?14:20
yofelwasn't that butterflies? :D14:21
yossarianukmgraesslin: whilst this subject is being discussed - my work PC with integrated intel GPU  (Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller) by default had terrible issues with kubuntu 15.0414:21
yossarianuknot just screen tearing, it was like you were watching faulty analogue video - in some ways the most spectacular of GPU errors.  14:22
* mgraesslin remembers having bitched about Intel driver quality this week...14:22
yossarianukI fixed that by turning 'tearing prevention' to -> never14:22
yossarianukafter that change no issues ever14:23
yossarianukbefore it was random - i.e it would work for a day or so (sometimes) without issue, sometimes 5 mins after booting up...14:23
clivejoyofel: isnt stopped working a valid piece of feekback ?!?14:23
yossarianukI have dual monitor setup also (which may be part of the cause)14:23
clivejoerror 256 if that means anything to you14:24
yofelclivejo: I welcome you to triage a bug report that has "Doesn't work" as the only Text contents...14:24
clivejoLOL14:24
geniiIt's at times like these I wish the factoid "doesntwork" had not been deleted14:24
clivejoit did work, up until yesterday14:25
clivejoI blame the official release14:25
yofelyeah right, as if someone put code into the package that goes "if [ -n "$(lsb_release -d | grep develop") ]; then exit 256; fi"14:26
yofeldoes it not start at all?14:26
yossarianukwell if anyone complains about 2001 style (i.e the end sequence of the film) style GPU issues with plasma5/intel - ask them to set kde's tearing prevention to Never.14:27
mamarleyI have a couple of systems with Intel GPUs running Plasma 5 and the Tearing Prevention set to "Full Scene Repaints" (the only way to completely get rid of tearing on Intel) and they don't have any problems.14:28
yossarianuknow that mesa is starting to support opengl4 with there be a opengl4 renderer ?14:32
yossarianuk(i've seen the post about vulkan - ie there is no real benefit using it for kwin)14:32
palassoRiddell: I'm with you :)14:57
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pursuivantmuon (master) v5.4.2-131-g4e5297a * Safa Alfulaij: notifier/MuonNotifier.cpp15:07
pursuivantFix plural issues in notifier15:07
pursuivantThere are some plural strings in notifier which are marked for translation by i18n instead of i18np.15:07
pursuivantREVIEW: 12542315:07
pursuivanthttp://commits.kde.org/muon/4e5297a18d649ace71b8e96d1ed2488cbe4af24715:07
pursuivantmuon (master) v5.4.2-132-g94ef0ea * Aleix Pol: libmuon (17 files in 8 dirs)16:20
pursuivantExpose the resource size into the resourcesmodel16:20
pursuivanthttp://commits.kde.org/muon/94ef0ea1e9fcee6ef88d269b4c71adff5ede95b316:20
pursuivantmuon (master) v5.4.2-133-g44c1a9e * Aleix Pol: discover/qml (3 files)16:20
pursuivantMake it possible to sort the application list by size16:21
pursuivantAlso make it the default when reviewing the installed applications16:21
pursuivanthttp://commits.kde.org/muon/44c1a9e51c0220378f9331164693796c929c598016:21
ahoneybunhow the heck do people use GNOME's file manager??? it's missing so many features 16:52
TJ-It's a Gnome ... it is stunted growth :D16:53
ahoneybunXD16:57
ahoneybunyea I'm putting Kubuntu back on that laptop I think lol16:57
ximionahoneybun: which feature are you mising?17:03
ximion(they're sometimes hidden nicely :P)17:03
pursuivantmuon (master) v5.4.2-134-g08a4aae * Aleix Pol: discover/qml/InstalledPage.qml17:21
pursuivantSize sorting should be descending17:21
pursuivanthttp://commits.kde.org/muon/08a4aaebc13a19a834bad63015ec6095d5de593017:21
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geniiRiddell: So where do we send you money for beer after this?17:51
clivejosend it c/o me ;)  Ill see he gets some of it :P17:59
clivejominus a sampling and handling fee of course17:59
geniiclivejo: Heh :)18:01
geniiGuess I'll go with https://www.kde.org/community/donations/index.php18:08
clivejoyeah, probably best, or the rhanda sprint if you support their work18:13
clivejooh its closed - https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/kdesprints2015/18:15
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