On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 15:25 +0200, Steve Dodier wrote: > Hello folks, > > > Feature freeze is going to occur in 11 days from now, which leaves > little time to take decisions about the applications and features we > want in Xubuntu Karmic. Several specs have been written, about default > applications, but unfortunately two of them have not been followed by > any action/decision so far (image viewer / mail client). > > > I don't think it would be easy to organise a team meeting with the > presence of the 3 core developers, so maybe we can discuss these specs > in this thread, so that Cody, Lionel and Michael can decide whether we > should change these applications or not before Feature Freeze, and > update the xubuntu-desktop seed accordingly. > > > Default Image Viewer > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Karmic/DefaultImageViewer > > > As we know, Stephan (developer of Ristretto) is re-designing > Ristretto's features prior to writing it's next release, so we can > consider the current upstream release as the final one for Karmic > (unless we spot critical bugs / unwanted behaviour and take upon > ourselves to write a patch for it). Maybe Stephan can tell us more > about what is expected for Ristretto in the following weeks. Ristretto > is slightly heavier than Gpicvieww, but it does have more features, > and if we change, we can also bring a bigger userbase to Ristretto, > thus helping finding (and fixing) bugs. On a purely distro point of > view, this would allow us to provide our users with a more stable and > feature rich image viewer for our next LTS. > > > Default Mail Client > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Karmic/DefaultImageViewer
Is this the right link to go with the subject title? > > > I'm not using mail clients at all, so I don't have an opinion about > this, but it would be good to make a choice about the mail client. All > I can say is that I don't think we will be able to do anything else > than providing these applications "as-is" for this release. I'm not > even confident about possible libindicate support, since the upstream > libindicate developers still didn't separate libindicate from > indicator-applet (which depends on GNOME). This also means we probably > won't be able to get indicator-applet-xfce in Karmic. The next release > being an LTS, I think Karmic could be a release of choice for > introducing such changes and for getting user feedback, though. > > > Default Power Manager > > > There is no spec for this one so far, but are we able to tell what we > want to do on Xfce4-power-manager in order to use it for Karmic ? > Cody's been working on RAM usage, what else is lacking ? I'll try to > find time for improving battery notifications to something such as lp > #399492. We're also lacking PolicyKit support, as far as I understand. > I don't think this is a realistic goal for Karmic, but is someone > willing to work on it for Karmic+1 ? > > > GDM, gnome-screensaver > > > What are we doing about these ? I don't believe we want to depend on > gnome-session, but it is really time to decide about what to use as a > replacement for these two applications (and whether we can use > something unsecure / ugly and fix the security flaws / GUI). > > > NotifyOsd > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Karmic/NotifyOsd > > > This is mostly done; I have working code for xfconf support, and for > text size / bubble colour customization. It will only be lacking a > GUI, because I just don't have the time for it, but I believe this > should be feasible in Karmic+1. By the meanwhile, I will take the time > to write a wiki page about how to customize NotifyOsd's appearence, > and commands to turn the white on black to some tooltip-like look and > feel. I am very sorry, Charlie, for not being able to write a GUI for > it right now. I didn't expect to not code at all for two weeks because > of personal life agitation. > > > I may have forgotten stuff about what needs to be addressed for > feature freeze, feel free to add it to the conversation. > > -- > Steve Dodier > OpenPGP : 1B6B1670 > IRC : SiDi on irc.freenode.net > Jabber : [email protected] > [email protected] > https://launchpad.net/~sidi > -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
-- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
