Hi, The desktop team has been revisiting the applications selection changes discussed at UDS, this email has a summary of the changes which have done or delayed to next cycle
The corresponding blueprints: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-desktop-application-selection https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-une-app-selection * Chromium on UNE It was decided at UDS to consider Chromium to be default on UNE or at default to be in main starting this cycle. It has been decided some weeks ago to not use by default for maverick, Jorge has sent a status update about that on the list recently. Chris has started a discussion on the technical board list about how to do chromium security update. Since that question is not solved yet and we didn't find the resources to work out how translations update could work for it we decide to let chromium in universe for this cycle. We will keep investigating how we can support it properly in main for next cycle though * Shotwell on UNE and maybe Desktop It was decided at UDS to replace f-spot by shotwell on UNE and to consider the change for desktop. The feedback we got this cycle was rather encouraging and we decided to change the default in the desktop edition as well. f-spot will still be updated and maintained in Ubuntu but the default now is shotwell on UNE and Desktop * Banshee by default on UNE It was decided to use banshee by default on UNE this cycle. Didier worked on the required change but the promotion is still blocker by the switch to udev which didn't land yet. That should be in an upstream tarball next week. We would normally postpone that change to next cycle on the desktop but we have a bit of extra flexibility on UNE so we will still try to get that change in next week when Didier is back. -- Sebastien Bacher Ubuntu Desktop Team -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
