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Desktop Team co-ordination and discussion
April 2011
Jason Warner — 130213203406 Apr 2011
Hi all, This is the call for discussion about Ubuntu desktop planning for the 11.10 cycle. Here's the process I'd like to use (if this looks f...
jbicha wants to join (3 Replies)
GNOME3 Team — 130215928607 Apr 2011*
Hello Ubuntu Desktop, Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) wants to be a member of GNOME3 Team (gnome3-team), but this is a moderated team, so that membership has to...
Martin Pitt — 130216373407 Apr 2011
Priority: low Rediscuss the structure of language-support-* metapackages vs. language-selector's dynamic detection of missing packages; right now ...
Integrate unity-2d/Qt / install media space (7 Replies)
Martin Pitt — 130216758207 Apr 2011*
Hello all, I hear that next cycle we will probably be required to ship unity-2d, and with it Qt. This means we'll need yet another round of ...
Desktop-side networking enhancements (1 Reply)
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre — 130218840707 Apr 2011*
Hi all, As you may be aware, the next release will most likely bring in the new version of NetworkManager (0.9 now) with all kinds of fun stuff, like ...
Luke Yelavich — 130222513908 Apr 2011
So, with the ongoing work to make unity more accessible, and to make the whole accessibility experience better, one area that hasn't been given en...
OpenShot instead of PiTiVi (10 Replies)
Jono Bacon — 130229178808 Apr 2011*
Hi All, Recently I have been using OpenShot with some good success. While there are some crasher issues, it seems the app demonstrates a great feature...
Default e-mail client (3 Replies)
Chris Coulson — 130251216611 Apr 2011*
Priority: errrr? At UDS for Natty we had a session to discuss the default e-mail client in Ubuntu. Whilst we agreed that we would continue to ship Evo...
GTK3/GNOME3 (19 Replies)
Martin Pitt — 130265445413 Apr 2011*
Hello all, kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions...
Packaging branches (10 Replies)
Robert Ancell — 130268637613 Apr 2011*
We currently maintain most Ubuntu Desktop packages in bzr branches and use bzr-builddeb in merge mode [1] with packaging stored in lp:~ubuntu-desktop/...
LightDM for display management (8 Replies)
Robert Ancell — 130270558713 Apr 2011*
Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1]. It was deferred due to the Unity work, so time to repropose! The main reasons for switching ar...
Matthew Paul Thomas — 130288825915 Apr 2011
This is a rather boring topic, but it is relatively simple work that is easily splittable and well-suited for a UDS discussion. It is useful for peopl...
GNOME3 Team — 130329113220 Apr 2011
Hello Ubuntu Desktop, Christophe Sauthier (huats) (christophe.sauthier) wants to be a member of GNOME3 Team (gnome3-team), but this is a moderated tea...
Déjà Dup Backup Tool by def ault (4 Replies)
Michael Terry — 130330984320 Apr 2011*
Full disclosure: Déjà Dup is my own pet project. Déjà Dup [1] is a simple backup tool designed to be easy to use and well integrated. It's aim...
Featured Apps for Natty (1 Reply)
Jonathan Thomas — 130332374220 Apr 2011*
Has there been any discussion on which featured apps will be showcased in the Software Center for 11.04? If not, is it too late in the release cycle t...
Jo-Erlend Schinstad — 130334447621 Apr 2011*
I've been somewhat sceptical about Unity so I've delayed testing it. I started testing it this week and after a very short time, it's grow...
Martin Pitt — 130337354621 Apr 2011
Hello all, Rodrigo has worked in the desktop team for several months now, and will continue to do so. He has picked up all the necessary packaging ski...
Proposing to add Rodrigo Moya to ~ubuntu-desktop (5 Replies)
Martin Pitt — 130337590421 Apr 2011*
Hello all, Rodrigo has worked in the desktop team for several months now, and will continue to do so. In my experience he has picked up all the necess...
Reducing number of patches in our packages (10 Replies)
Rodrigo Moya — 130340035921 Apr 2011*
Priority: medium? While working on the GNOME3 PPA during this cycle, I found we have a lot of patches in many packages, which makes things harder when...
Jo-Erlend Schinstad — 130342384321 Apr 2011*
I've grown very fond of the appindicators and the fact that they work equally well in both gnome-panel and Unity, is something I really appreciate...
Simplifying system sleep functions (9 Replies)
Jason Warner — 130350466022 Apr 2011*
Hi Everyone - Sending this on behalf of John Lea, desktop design lead. == Currently Ubuntu contains two separate sleep functions, suspend and hibernat...
Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 (48 Replies)
Rick Spencer — 130375740325 Apr 2011*
Hello all, Back at UDS for 11.04 in Orlando, Mark set the goal of using Unity by default on the Ubutu desktop. Given the current course of development...
Sebastien Bacher — 130389763727 Apr 2011
Hi, It's a bit later than other suggestions but natty testing confirmed that we dropped some of the win we had on login time, cpu usage, etc for t...
Default Browser (15 Replies)
Micah Gersten — 130398487728 Apr 2011*
Since now both Firefox and Chromium have committed to rapid release schedules, I think it's time to reevaluate the default browser in Ubuntu. I am...