KubuntuKarmicPackaging

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Summary

What we will package for Kubuntu Karmic.

Release Note

Kubuntu Karmic comes with KDE 4.3. It includes Arora, a new Webkit based web browser. The Kaffeine video player has been added back for DVB and playlist support. KOffice 2 is now available in main. A new netbook settings package is available for small laptops.

Rationale

Kubuntu Karmic should include the best of KDE.

User stories

Mariamne wants to read Slashdot, she uses Arora and notices that she actually can.

Mindi wants to edit an image with CMYK colours, she uses Krita to successfully view and edit it.

Assumptions

That upstream develops as we expect.

Design

Kubuntu Karmic will ship with KDE 4.3.

Applications

The Dragon video player will be replaced by Kaffine. We will work to get K3b compiling for KDE 4 and ensure that it works for all the CD burning related usecases. KOffice 2 should be moved to main replacing KOffice 1, and have its packages renamed to drop the -kde4 suffix.

We will include Arora on the CD and set it as the default web browser if the developers can meet criteria we will discuss.

Quassel will be the default IRC client but we will discuss with upstream usability issues to be specified.

Packages

Phonon should be built from Qt. We do not expect new releases of Phonon to happen outside of Qt but if they do they should be made as patches to the Phonon within Qt. The backends will be build separately from the existing phonon pacdkage.

The remaining packages with a -kde4 suffix should be renamed to drop the suffix.

Netbooks

Upstream are working on a netbook layout for Plasma. When this is available we should backport it to KDE 4.3 and

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