Last week, we (RedHat guys, but mostly Daniel Vrátil) hosted KDE PIM Sprint here in Brno and this was a great opportunity for other hackers/friends to join us earlier and hack on Solid. I was working mainly with Lukáš Tinkl on libmm-qt (Qt library for ModemManager), which has now full support of ModemManager 1.0. We made some changes even in plasma-nm, but mostly bugfixes and we improved support for displays with high resolution. Another thing that was going on over the past week was usability study (thanks to Björn Balazs) and you can still tell us your opinions and vote for Björn’s ideas, because we really want to make plasma-nm better. We also discussed usability with Thomas Pfeiffer on the PIM Sprint and I hope you will like the result, but I will write about it later when we have some demo so we can get some criticism :).

We also released a new version of our “networkmanagement compilation” including plasma-nm, libmm-qt and libnm-qt and we decided to follow versions of NetworkManager and ModemManager to make it less confusing.

• libmm-qt 1.0.0 – has full support of ModemManager 1.0
• libnm-qt 0.9.8.0 – has full support of NetworkManager 0.9.8 and this version is only compilable with the new libmm-qt
• plasma-nm 0.9.3.2 – with a lot of bugfixes and improved support for HDPI displays

It’s now quite confusing which versions of libmm-qt and libnm-qt you need, because we have two stable releases of libmm-qt and libnm-qt, but it’s pretty simple. If your distribution has ModemManager 1.0, you need the new versions (libmm-qt 1.0.0 and libnm-qt 0.9.8), if your distribution has ModemManager < 1.0, use previously released versions (libmm-qt 0.5.1 and libnm-qt 0.9.0.1).