Salut! Steve Dodier wrote: > Hello folks, > > I just would like to give a few words about points 2, 3, 4, and > possibly 6. > > 2. Discuss and spec out improvements to notifications. > > * For the notifications, i had a look at both daemons, and i > personally think notify-osd to be very promising. I'm sorry for > not being able to attend UDS physically before thursday morning, > but I'll try to get in touch with Mirco Muëller (help might be > needed from people who know what he looks like :p)in order to > see what will be done in notify-osd during the karmic cycle > (esp, will the brigthness-lag and fullscreen bugs be fixed). > http://www.flickr.com/photos/keybuk/2664192550/ > > * I hope to get my sound notifications daemon running soon. I also > spotted some stuff that could be changed/fixed in thunar-volman > (mostly remove the action buttons from the "media not ready to > unmount yet" notification bubble, and possibly add notifications > for when a device is done mounting) > * We also have to make sure our icon theme includes notification-* > icons. > > 3. Identify and possibly fix the login delay issue | 4. Examine memory > usage of default Xubuntu desktop > > * A quick googling brought me to some people whining about the > slowness of xfce4-settings-helper, we'll have to check this out. > * Also related to 4. (ram usage) : we have update-notifier + > jockey running on startup, these also take time to launch, and > they're very RAM hungry compared to the rest of the desktop. We > might want to find a way to load them later, or not on all boots > ? Also, tracker is launched by default, afaik. Is it needed by > all users ? > > > 6. Documentation, Artwork. > > * I've got a few ideas for an usplash (not sure we'll have > Plymouth by time). I actually love the openSuse ones, they're > original, i'll try to get an usplash theme mockup asap. > In the last cycle we were way too late to include a new usplash. This needs to be worked quite early in the cycle as it might break things. I have no objections even if it was just "basic Xubuntu" and something specially made for Karmic.
It'd be great if you could come up with an usplash mockup :) > > * Pasi and me will apparently try to work on improving XFCE's own > doc during the next months. Integrating the XFCE doc could be a > good goal for improving our own one, aswell as the xubuntu-docs. > Having them on the website with a sexy CSS would also help. > As we discussed in UDS Jaunty, we are trying to get way more cooperation in Xfce/Xubuntu documentation, and I think Jim and Jannis have done something to form a shared documentation team already. We totally want to support Xfce in their documentation. > > * About the website, what could we add to it in order to make it > more useful ? A sort of planet.xubuntu.org > <http://planet.xubuntu.org> ? More support options from the > start page ? What are we going to do for the lack of mirrors, too ? > In a few days I can showcase you a partly static site running WordPress (MU). I still think we should switch to WP to get new features more easily. Also with WP we could easily aggregate developer blogs into a blog planet. > > Voilà, that's all for now. Im really looking forward to see all those > of you who are at Barcelona ! > > > -- > Steve Dodier > OpenPGP : 1B6B1670 > IRC : SiDi on irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> > Jabber : [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://launchpad.net/~sidi <https://launchpad.net/%7Esidi> Have a nice UDS in BCN! -- Pasi Lallinaho Xubuntu Marketing Lead Web-designer, graphic artist IRC: knome @ freenode -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
